On 5/21/06, Hari Krishna Dara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 at 3:12pm, Eric Arnold wrote:
> I've been trying to map "cd" if it's the first two characters on the
> :ex line. I've tried all the combinations I can think of. On
> several of them, I seem to be getting errors as if <expr> is run in
> the sandbox (that dog won't hunt). The only one that works at all is
> the first simple mapping, but that gets painful, of course, when you
> want to use "cd" in a search, etc.
>
> Anybody know any good tricks?
>
>
> silent! cunmap cd
>
> cnoremap <silent> cd call Cd_plus()<CR>
>
> "cnoremap <silent> cd echo getcmdpos()<CR>
> "cnoremap <silent> cd if getcmdpos() < 3 <bar> call Cd_plus() <bar>
> else <bar> call feedkeys('cd','n') <bar> call setcmdpos(1) <bar> end
> <CR>
> "cnoremap <silent> <expr> cd ( getcmdpos() == 1 ? Cd_plus() : 'cd' )
> "cnoremap <silent> <expr> cd Cd_plus()
> "abbr <silent> <expr> cd Cd_plus()
> "silent! unabbr cd
You should use the new <expr> option and check if you are in the start
<expr> seems to be evaluated in the sandbox as with <C-R>=, I report
with sadness...
of the command from the function. You can then return "cd" or whatever
else you want. I have actually needed this same functionality for
myself, and created a plugin called cmdalias.vim. This was very
complicated to do prior to 7.0, but with the new <expr> feature in 7.0,
it became a very simple plugin. Never the less, it is available at:
http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=745
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HTH,
Hari
