Re: How to turn a q recording into a map?

[Tobia]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Somehow it never occured to me that I could view and edit the contents
 of a recording. Of course, it's just a register, so I pasted the register; 
 edited the contents; then yanked the lines back into the register...
 and naturally this worked fine.

This is going to be immensely useful! Thanks for the heads up


 I was thinking that there should be a way to take the register lines
 and automatically turn them into an noremap (including adding the @ to
 start register playback). Has anyone perfected this?

Like this?

:map {key} {C-R register}

For example if you want to save register q as F2:

:map F2 {C-R q}

where you actually type C-R q at the prompt.

If you like your new mapping and want to make it permanent:
  - open your ~/.vimrc in a new window/tab/buffer
  - bring up the commandline window (q:)
  - find the map comand you used
  - yank it (yy)
  - close the commandline window (C-C C-C)
  - paste it


Tobia

Re: How to turn a q recording into a map?

[Tim Chase]

 Somehow it never occured to me that I could view and edit
 the contents of a recording. Of course, it's just a
 register, so I pasted the register; edited the contents;
 then yanked the lines back into the register... and
 naturally this worked fine.
 
 This is going to be immensely useful! Thanks for the heads up

In addition, sometimes it's difficult to pull the exact
(modified) contents of the register back into the register so it
maintains the desired effect.  I find this the case when the
macro has multiple line-breaks in it.  However, I've found that I
can tweak them by doing things like

:let @a=substitute(@a, 'foo', 'bar', '')

if I want to correct foo to bar in my macro.  It also helps
when you're using a macro to do one thing that you know you'll be
doing the exact-same recorded process, but using some other piece
of text.  It's a little more difficult to change
control-sequences, but for simple text-replacements, I find that
it is more predictable and still fairly easy to do.

Just another oddball tip for abusing vim. :)

-tim

How to turn a q recording into a map?

[noah]

Somehow it never occured to me that I could view and edit the contents
of a recording. Of course, it's just a register, so I pasted the register; 
edited the contents; then yanked the lines back into the register...
and naturally this worked fine.

I was thinking that there should be a way to take the register lines
and automatically turn them into an noremap (including adding the @ to start
register playback). Has anyone perfected this?

Yours,
Noah

Re: How to turn a q recording into a map?

[Jean-Rene David]

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.23 19:45]:
 I was thinking that there should be a way to
 take the register lines and automatically turn
 them into an noremap (including adding the @ to
 start register playback). Has anyone perfected
 this?

If you want your mapping to follow the (possibly
changing) content of q:

map F2 @q

If you want your mapping to stay fixed even if
register q changes:

:exe map F2  . expand(@q)

and then you can map that...

map F3 :exe map F2  . expand(@q)CR

HTH,

-- 
JR