RightControl

FarNet module RightControl for Far Manager

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Synopsis

This tool alters some operations in editors, edit boxes, and the command line. They are: Step, Select, Delete by words, Go, Select to smart home. New actions are similar to what many popular editors do on stepping, selecting, deleting by words, and etc. Example: Visual Studio, Word, WordPad, etc.

Project

• Source: https://github.com/nightroman/FarNet/tree/main/RightControl
• Author: Roman Kuzmin

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Installation

Requirements

• Far Manager
• Package FarNet
• Package FarNet.RightControl

Instructions

How to install and update FarNet and modules:
https://github.com/nightroman/FarNet#readme

After installing use for examples or copy the macro file:
RightControl.macro.lua to %FARPROFILE%\Macros\scripts

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Commands

The module works by commands called from macros associated with keys:

Word commands

• step-left ~ [CtrlLeft]
• step-right ~ [CtrlRight]
• select-left ~ [CtrlShiftLeft]
• select-right ~ [CtrlShiftRight]
• delete-left ~ [CtrlBS]
• delete-right ~ [CtrlDel]
• vertical-left ~ [CtrlAltLeft]
• vertical-right ~ [CtrlAltRight]

Smart home commands

• go-to-smart-home ~ [Home]
• select-to-smart-home ~ [ShiftHome]

Smart home deals with:

• Editors ~ leading spaces
• Command lines ~ prefix and spaces

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Settings

Module settings: [F11] \ FarNet \ Settings \ RightControl

• RegexLeft

  This regular expression defines caret stops on moving left.

• RegexRight

  This regular expression defines caret stops on moving right.

Regex examples

Default patterns. Stops are similar to Visual Studio:

(?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S ) (?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S )

Patterns with stops similar to Word/WordPad (_ stops, too):

(?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S | (?<=[^_])_ | (?<=_)[^_\s] ) (?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S | (?<=[^_])_ | (?<=_)[^_\s] )

Default patterns with two more breaks: letter case and digits:

(?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S | (?<=\p{Ll})\p{Lu} | (?<=\D)\d | (?<=\d)[^\d\s] ) (?x: ^ | $ | (?<=\b|\s)\S | (?<=\p{Ll})\p{Lu} | (?<=\D)\d | (?<=\d)[^\d\s] )

The same with comments, thanks to (?x:) together with ignored white spaces:

(?x: ^ | $ # start or end of line | (?<=\b|\s)\S # not a space with a word bound or a space before | (?<=\p{Ll})\p{Lu} # an upper case letter with a lower case letter before | (?<=\D)\d | (?<=\d)[^\d\s] # a digit/not-digit with a not-digit/digit before )