Vim: Feature request: custom text objects/motions

[timkendrick]

I'm an Atom vim-mode-plus user who's been keeping an eye on VSCode for a while: one of the main things that's holding me back from switching is the inability to define various text objects and motions that I've grown accustomed to.

Some examples of custom text objects in other 'vimplementations':

• vim-mode-plus-subword-movement (Atom vim-mode-plus)
• vim-textobj-function (Vim)
• vim-textobj-indent (Vim)
• vim-textobj-user (Vim)
  ...etc

Is there any chance that this kind of extensibility will be available for text objects and motions within VSCode Vim some day?

[johnfn]

Our current policy on extensions is that while we probably won't implement them ourselves, we're completely open to other users implementing them. We're also completely fine with merging them into VSCodeVim core (generally speaking under a flag).

[timkendrick]

Sounds great, thanks for the fast response!

[johnfn]

Gonna keep this open as it's a valid feature request.

[tylerthehaas]

I also would very much like to see this. Any work going on with this?

[sunnyrjuneja]

Hey everyone,

Subword support has been added to VS Code in 1.25 (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/48023). Is it possible to enable subword for motion hot keys?

[muhajirdev]

Any progress on this?

[tsujp]

Still no progress?

[skywind3000]

Still no progress ??