cursorSpaceWord commands skip over strings. about metago HOT 3 CLOSED

@phyllisstein thank you so much for such detailed feedback with nice gif! 👍
I'm so glad you like the tool.

if I understand correctly, you are asking the the functionality of word commands.

metaWord defines 3 kinds of words:

the word-commands currently use the default vscode's internal commands, whose behavior is different for left and right, which makes me pulsed too. I described this in the readme and I do have a plan to make the two direction behavior consistent when have time. (means override the default implementation, not sure all user hate the default behavior like us😉)

Note: the space-word commands's design purpose is to moveCursor/select/delete word separated by space

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🤦 Gah, thank you for so patiently explaining what was, I now see, already patiently explained in the README. That makes perfect sense. I think what got me turned around initially was that the word commands from this package didn't straightforwardly override the built-in commands. They just wound up appearing alongside them:

Perhaps because the commands aren't namespaced to the package, this was the odd-looking block that I added to keybindings.json to get it working:

{
    "key": "alt+left",
    "command": "cursorWordLeft"
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+alt+left",
    "command": "cursorWordLeftSelect"
  },
  {
    "key": "alt+right",
    "command": "cursorWordRight"
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+alt+right",
    "command": "cursorWordRightSelect"
  },

Anyway, working great now. Thanks again for your work on this; can't tell you how nice it is to have these commands back (not to mention beginning-/end-of-paragraph jumps!).

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@phyllisstein so glad you find your solution, 🥂

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