Hi,
I really liked how emacs handles the backspace key more efficiently and tried to replicate a small bit of functionality in Sublime Text.
The plugin can be found here:
github.com/skyronic/Gobble
This is a video of the plugin in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQvi09QW1I)
Need feedback and suggestions before I submit it into package control!
wow, this is pretty nice!
Thanks!
I think there are some problems on haml:
screencast.com/t/Kd3PQkoBu
(note how indentation changes when i press backspace)
[quote=“iamntz”]wow, this is pretty nice!
Thanks!
I think there are some problems on haml:
screencast.com/t/Kd3PQkoBu
(note how indentation changes when i press backspace)[/quote]
Hi!
Thanks for trying it out.
I can reproduce your bug. I think the reason this is happening is because I re-indent the line every time, and rely on sublime’s in-built re-indenting functionality.
I’ll make some more changes now to preserve the same level of indentation.
Looks nice. I’ll give it a go once others find initial bugs 
What screen capture software are you using? 
[quote=“wuub”]Looks nice. I’ll give it a go once others find initial bugs
What screen capture software are you using? [/quote]
Hi wuub!
Thanks 
! Do let me know if you find any issues.
I’m using gtk-recordmydesktop (linux) and key-mon code.google.com/p/key-mon/ ]
[quote=“iamntz”]wow, this is pretty nice!
Thanks!
I think there are some problems on haml:
screencast.com/t/Kd3PQkoBu
(note how indentation changes when i press backspace)[/quote]
Hey iamntz,
I have fixed the bug you encountered. The reason was that I was calling the “reindent” command after deleting a line.
Now I just copy the original whitespace string and re-prepend it after it has been deleted. It should work much better for languages which do not have a stable re-indent mechanism and even plain text!
I like what you’re trying to do with Gobble, but I just encountered a point of contention regarding auto indent.
Consider creating a new function in Ruby:
def new_function
endI don’t use a lot of snippets, so when I do this, I type ‘def new_function’ and then ENTER, and with auto indenting, the insertion point would be on the next line but indented one more level:
def new_function<enter>
|<insertion point>My normal practice is to then press ENTER again to go to the next line, BACKSPACE to back up one indentation level and type ‘end’. But with Gobble, I can’t. When I press BACKSPACE, I go back to the previous line. So I either need to not use auto indent (unlikely) or SHIFT+TAB instead of BACKSPACE before typing ‘end’. I’m not sure which is better. I’ll have to play with it a bit and see what I think.
[Or I could just start using a snippet and save myself from typing ‘end’ a lot! ]
Either way, thanks for making the Sublime Community a little better!
@phillip.koebbe: at least on windows, shift+backspace works pretty much as expected
Edit:
Thanks! Works awesome!
Wow. Thanks for that! And on a Mac, SHIFT+BACKSPACE works pretty much as expected, too HAH HAH.
You know, in all my years of pecking on a keyboard, I can’t think of a time that I’ve shifted a backspace. Har har.
In related news, I think I’ve decided to use a snippet. There’s already one for ruby and I just need to change it a little to my liking.
Not so awesome in Python. Since python is an indention language, it is frustrating when you get auto-indented but you want to back out because the code block is done, and then gobble won’t let you backspace proper.
That’s what I was referring to. You’re left with the choices of shift+tab or shift+backspace, neither of which is particularly appealing. If you have a keyboard with assignable keys, you can reduce it to one keystroke, so then it’s just a matter of retraining the muscle memory from backspace to the new location.
I’m going to run with it a couple of days and see what happens. I never know until I try …
Yeah, I normally don’t write python. But I noticed the same issue while I was writing the plugin source code itself.
Do you think it’s better if I alias it to some other keybinding (ctrl+backspace) perhaps. This would fall back to the default binding of ctrl+backspace (backward delete word) if it’s not the first character of a line - and it performs the gobble operation if it is.
[quote=“phillip.koebbe”]I like what you’re trying to do with Gobble, but I just encountered a point of contention regarding auto indent.
Consider creating a new function in Ruby:
def new_function
endI don’t use a lot of snippets, so when I do this, I type ‘def new_function’ and then ENTER, and with auto indenting, the insertion point would be on the next line but indented one more level:
def new_function<enter>
|<insertion point>My normal practice is to then press ENTER again to go to the next line, BACKSPACE to back up one indentation level and type ‘end’. But with Gobble, I can’t. When I press BACKSPACE, I go back to the previous line. So I either need to not use auto indent (unlikely) or SHIFT+TAB instead of BACKSPACE before typing ‘end’. I’m not sure which is better. I’ll have to play with it a bit and see what I think.
[Or I could just start using a snippet and save myself from typing ‘end’ a lot! ]
Either way, thanks for making the Sublime Community a little better![/quote]
Hi Phillip, facelessuser,
I figured out a fix for this - a way you can use Gobble and still work easily using your older muscle memory.
If you press backspace on an empty line (say after finishing a function block and wanting to type ‘end’) - it will only go back one level of indentation!!
Do try it out and let me know how it works!
[quote=“skyronic”]
Hi Phillip, facelessuser,
I figured out a fix for this - a way you can use Gobble and still work easily using your older muscle memory.
If you press backspace on an empty line (say after finishing a function block and wanting to type ‘end’) - it will only go back one level of indentation!!
Do try it out and let me know how it works![/quote]
I just gave it a quick whirl and it looks promising! I’ll have it running today and let you know how it goes. Thanks for work!
This looks pretty sweet! Are you planning on adding it to package control eventually?