VimGraph: Wolfram Function for Visualizing Vim-Style Text Navigation Movements
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Summary
VimGraph is a Wolfram Language function that constructs graphs representing Vim-style text navigation movements. The function analyzes and visualizes keystroke sequences needed to move between positions in text, with features for calculating minimal keystroke sequences, illustrating relationships between navigation distance and text formatting, and supporting custom movement patterns through the "CustomPatterns" option.
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Returns a minimal sequence of keystrokes needed to move from one letter to another
Illustrates the relationship between the maximum keystroke distance required to navigate between two letters in a text and the number of randomly inserted newlines
Use the 'CustomPatterns' option to define new movements by passing a string pattern to 'StringPattern', with optional shortcuts for jumping forward
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