Support vim.v.count for subword

[drowning-cat]

Does subword support vim.v.count?

I got the idea from this discussion:

• [mini.ai] The perfect mini-word textobject echasnovski/mini.nvim#1434

For example:
CamelCase + 2cis (or c2is) + Sneak results in CamelSneak.

[chrisgrieser]

No, counts are currently not supported.

[drowning-cat]

There are two variants:

1. TacoShellCrunch + 2cis + Cheese = TacoCheeseCrunch
2. TacoShellCrunch + 2cis + Cheese = CheeseCrunch

Note

• 2cis or c2is -> vim.v.operator = 2
• 2c2is -> vim.v.operator = 4

Perhaps there could be an additional argument for the subword function to differentiate the behavior.

[chrisgrieser]

Yeah, tbh, I am not totally sure how worthwhile it is to implement counts. I personally do not even use counts, since I find using dot-repeat to be much more efficient and intuitive. As you have shown, counts have quite a bit of ambiguity when used text objects. So it looks to me a bit like a feature only few people would use.

I think implementing counts in your personal config would be better. After all, enabling people to cover all their needs is exactly why the plugin exposes not only all text objects, but also all its core functions (see the API section of the readme to get started.)

[drowning-cat]

I’ll stick with mini.ai for now.

For the second variant, that might be true. But in the case of the first variant, if we have a word with three subwords like VeryLongWord, instead of pressing 3w followed by ciw, I can simply press 3ciw.

In my setup, I’ve rebound the motion to ,w to avoid altering the default behavior—so instead of pressing 3,wci,w, I can just press 3ci,w (saving 1-2 keystrokes and a little bit of mental overhead).