Maybe add interactions between meow-*-expand and beacon

[Haxxflaxx]

I've had this thought floating around for a while that if we had some way to manipulate the beacons and their selections, maybe we could lessen the need to record as many macros while doing edits in structured text.

I don't really know how feasible this is to do, or if it is as useful as it seems in my head.

The idea is that we have commands that place beacons and commands that manipulate the selections of those beacons. This would allow us to do something like "t = ] l" to place a beacon at each equal sign, then make a selection from each beacon to the end of the line.

There are probably a bunch of edge cases that I'm not thinking of, but I think this could be good to prototype.

[DogLooksGood]

I think this is a good idea, and I had thought about it. I want to make the selection behaviors as close to the behaviors in normal state as possible. I'll probably find a time to work on it. I'm missing some motivation because I believe these use cases are too few.

[Haxxflaxx]

Having selections behave closer to how it is in normal mode might lead to more of an expected behavior. Maybe having some prefix for placing the cursors? It's hard to say what would work well without actually trying it.

I agree that the use cases may be few. In most cases I either use it as a simple way of running macros on a region, or I place cursors by regex. A lot of things I use beacons for could probably be solved as well or better with a regex replace.