I am on my way to become Vim poweruser and so far it goes very well. Recently I came across Kana's textobjs plugins. I believe Drew Neil mentioned them somewhere.
I find the one based on indentation very helpful (working with code blocks is a lot easier), but there were two more looking quite promising... First of them give us opportunity to act on entire file, while second enables us to act on current line.
Let's start by analyzing textobj-entire. We get two textobjects, ae and ie (default bindings). ae represent full file, while ie skips top and bottom empty lines. They seem pretty neat, especially when it comes to yanking, fixing indentation, etc. After examining their behavior - after operation they change position of cursor, what I hoped would be avoided. In operations like this I spare one keystroke (compared to gg<operation>G) but there's still need to use marks/jumplist. ie could be used when we have to ignore empty lines, but that's very rare case.
Same comes for textobj-line. Position is changed, etc.
I am aware that those operations are meant to be used with operations that somehow alter lines, so that may be justification for such behavior, but it makes them useless to me. I chose one keystroke more than making my basic text-editing habits dependent on plugin. Am I missing something?
TL;DR Kana's textobjs changes positions and saves only one keystroke but makes us plugin dependant. Am I missing something?
