On 4/11/06, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 4/11/06, Anatoli Sakhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > Can anyone tell me what's wrong in the following function. I select
> > > something, press \/, enter _graph on the prompt and get another prompt
> > > immediately...
> > >
> > > function! VisualRangeSearch(flags)
> > > let pat = input("'<,'>/")
> > > let s = '\%V'.pat
> > > call search(s, a:flags)
> > > endf
> > >
> > > vnoremap <Leader>/ :call VisualRangeSearch('')
> > > vnoremap <Leader>? :call VisualRangeSearch('b')
> >
> > Something strange is going on here.
> > I simplified the testcase to 1 liner:
> >
> > vnoremap \\ :call input(line('.').col('.').'>>>')<cr>
> >
> > If you visual-select multiple lines and press \\,
> > you'll see that input() is called multiple times, once
> > for each selected line. Strange.
>
> Anatoli, I got it. The lhs is called N times (once for each selected line)
> because of :'<,'> range automatically inserted
> after ':'.
>
> The solution is to reset visual selection before : using <esc>
>
> vnoremap \\ <esc>:call Foo()
>
> , and then inside the function, to restore the visual area using
> normal gv
Another solution is to define user-defined command
with -range option, and invoke it on the rhs of the mapping. It
will be invoked once even when range is given to it.
Yakov
