Replace in visual selection

[user471]

Is it possible to use anzu in selected region?
For example I have this line

foo foo foo

I press V to select the line and use anzu-replace-at-cursor-thing but it shows

No symbol at cursor!!

[syohex]

Is it possible to use anzu in selected region?

No.

Emacs replacement commands use region for limiting replacement range. Replace commands of anzu behaves same as them.

[user471]

I think I need to rephrase. Yes, I can use anzu in selected region. But anzu-replace-at-cursor-thing sometime doesn't detect an symbol at cursor.
For example it works on first line but it doesn't work on second.

[syohex]

Thanks for information. I'll try to check.

[syohex]

In evil-mode, cursor is moved to forward of region-end after calling execute-extended-command(M-x).

[syohex]

Hmm, I cannot get original point before invoking command. How I get it ?

[syohex]

It is retrieve from evil-visual-point.

[syohex]

@user471 I have fixed #70. Could you check it ?

[user471]

On line

foo foo foo

when cursor is on the second foo and I press V and anzu-replace-at-cursor-thing, anzu highlights all three foo instead of just second and third.
Also there is a weird cursor jumping to the next line.

[syohex]

when cursor is on the second foo and I press V and anzu-replace-at-cursor-thing, anzu highlights all three foo instead of just second and third.

In such case, region is from beginning of line to end of line so this behaviour is expected.

[user471]

Would it be possible to support this cursor position similar to normal cursor?

[user471]

On the other hand this cursor doesn't play well with multi line selection (selection should be reverted). So maybe it's not worth it.

[syohex]

Would it be possible to support this cursor position similar to normal cursor?

Yes. But I suppose few people expects such behaviour.

[gonewest818]

As I'm just picking up maintenance on this package, I'm going to mark this with a "won't fix" based on syohex's last comment (few people would expect this behavior).

However I'll also leave the ticket open for a while in case there are strong objections. Please leave a comment and let me know!