seek-word-edge.md

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the quick brown fox
|^ 0

1 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

No more selections remaining, just keep the last one.

the quick brown fox
|^ 0

1 word-start-4

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• .seek.word { count: 4 }

the quick brown fox
                ^^^ 0

1 word-start-4 word-start

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• .seek.word

No more selections remaining, just keep the last one.

the quick brown fox
                ^^^ 0

1 word-start-4 word-start x

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• .seek.word

No more selections remaining, do not change.

the quick brown fox
                ^^^ 0

1 word-start-4 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

the quick brown fox
                |^^ 0

1 word-start-4 word-start-backward-2

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• .seek.word.backward { count: 2 }

the quick brown fox
          |^^^^^ 0

1 word-start-4 word-start-backward-5

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• .seek.word.backward { count: 5 }

Move 4 times, but don't move again (no more selections remaining otherwise).

the quick brown fox
|^^^ 0

1 word-start-5

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• .seek.word { count: 5 }

Move 4 times, but don't move again (no more selections remaining otherwise).

the quick brown fox
                ^^^ 0

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foo bar
       ^ 0
baz

2 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

foo bar
    |^^ 0
baz

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behavior <- character

the quick brown fox
|^^^ 0
      |^ 1

3 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

Selection #0 overflowed and was removed. Selection #1 moved.

the quick brown fox
    |^^ 0

3 word-start-backward-9

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• .seek.word.backward { count: 9 }

Both overflowed and both fell back to the selection below.

the quick brown fox
|^^^ 0

3 word-end-4

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• .seek.wordEnd { count: 4 }

Selection #1 overflowed and was removed. Selection #0 moved.

the quick brown fox
               ^^^^ 0

3 word-end-5

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• .seek.wordEnd { count: 5 }

Both overflowed and both fell back to the selection below.

the quick brown fox
               ^^^^ 0

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behavior <- character

there is a blank line before me
|^^^^ 0

4 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

Special case in Kakoune: anchor is moved to beginning of document and active is moved to the first character of the second line.

^ 0
there is a blank line before me
^ 0

4 word-start-backward x

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• .seek.word.backward

Going to previous again will just keep the selection the same.

^ 0
there is a blank line before me
^ 0

4 word-start-backward-4

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• .seek.word.backward { count: 9 }

Similarly, more repetitions won't do anything either.

^ 0
there is a blank line before me
^ 0

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behavior <- character

there are two blank lines before me
|^^^^ 0

5 word-start-backward

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• .seek.word.backward

Special case in Kak: anchor is moved to beginning of document and active is moved to the first character (line break in this case) of the second line.

^ 0

^ 0
there are two blank lines before me

5 word-start-backward x

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• .seek.word.backward

Going to previous again will just keep the selection the same.

^ 0

^ 0
there are two blank lines before me

5 word-start-backward-9

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• .seek.word.backward { count: 9 }

^ 0

^ 0
there are two blank lines before me

TODO: Write tests for document with trailing empty lines.