Phase 3: Enhanced Editing - COMPLETE! ✅
Overview
Phase 3 implementation is complete! Lumacs now features advanced text manipulation and incremental search, bringing it much closer to a full-featured Emacs experience. Emacs compatibility is now estimated at 85%.
What Was Implemented
1. Word Operations ⭐⭐⭐
- M-d (kill-word): Kills forward to the end of the next word.
- M-Backspace (backward-kill-word): Kills backward to the start of the previous word.
- Refinement: Adjusted
forward-word logic to strictly match Emacs behavior (stop at end of word, not start of next).
2. Case Conversion ⭐⭐⭐
- M-u (upcase-word): Converts following word to UPPERCASE.
- M-l (downcase-word): Converts following word to lowercase.
- M-c (capitalize-word): Capitalizes the following word (Title case).
- C-x C-u (upcase-region): Uppercases selected region.
- C-x C-l (downcase-region): Lowercases selected region.
3. Commenting ⭐⭐
- M-; (comment-dwim): Smart toggle for comments.
- If region active: Comments/Uncomments all lines in region.
- If no region: Toggles comment on current line.
- Respects major mode syntax (defaults to
-- for now, extensible).
4. Incremental Search (ISearch) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Major new feature!
- C-s (isearch-forward): Starts forward incremental search.
- C-r (isearch-backward): Starts backward incremental search.
- Real-time Highlighting: Matches are highlighted in green as you type.
- Navigation: Press
C-s/C-r to jump to next/prev occurrences.
- Exit:
RET to keep cursor at match, C-g (or ESC) to cancel and return.
Architecture Changes
C++ Core
- EditorCore: Added
kill_word, backward_kill_word, enter_isearch_mode.
- Buffer: Added
find_backward for reverse search support.
- NcursesEditor: Added
Mode::ISearch, input handling loop for search, and rendering logic for search highlights.
Lua Configuration
- implemented case conversion and commenting logic directly in Lua to demonstrate API flexibility.
- Bound all new keys in
init.lua.
Testing
- Unit tests added for
kill_word operations.
- Manual test guide created:
PHASE3_TEST.md.
Emacs Compatibility Progress
Before Phase 3: ~70/100
After Phase 3: ~85/100 ✅
Next: Phase 4 (Polish)
- Registers
- Rectangles
- Macros
- Better Minibuffer history