Hi, On 5/31/07, Joseph Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, all.I was recently helping someone out with a vim script (camelcasemotion.vim) which adds additional motion commands (they treat camel-cased words (WordsLikeThis) as separate words, rather than as a single word). This is easy enough to do in normal and operator-pending mode. It seems to be very complicated to do this in visual mode, though -- calling a function (or anything that lets you move the cursor) seems to force you to leave visual mode (i.e., doing `vmap ,w :<C-U>call MoveCursor()` will move the cursor to the right place, but you're no longer in visual mode). My approach to this was to call the movement function, set a mark, select the previous visual block (with gv) and then jump to the mark that was previously set. The mapping that I created to deal with this is the following: vmap <silent> ,w @="\33:\25call <SID>CamelCaseMotion('w',1,'v')"<CR><CR>m`gvg`` This seems somewhat inelegant, and also clobbers a mark to be able to accomplish its magic. Is there an easier way to accomplish the same thing? It seems like there should be, but I was unable to figure one out.
Did you try specifying the <expr> attribute to the map command? Something along the lines of function! MoveToCursor() return "/\\u\\|\\<\<CR>" endfunction vnoremap <expr> ,w MoveCursor() The MoveCursor() function should return a sequence of keys that will position the cursor at the desired location. - Yegappan
