On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 at 9:29am, Max Dyckhoff wrote:
> > You're working on a large project, so I would advise caution when
> doing
> > tab completion. If you happened to be waiting on an accidental (slow)
> > completion like a<Tab>, then hit Ctrl-c to stop it.
>
> Yes, I love how vim is nice and intuitive if Linux stuff is ingrained in
> your every move :)
>
>
> > Nope, no (easy) way. That's just how Vim was implemented. You could
> hack
> > the source code though.
> >
> > If you don't have any other commands besides :Sfind beginning with
> "Sf",
> > you can just do :Sf instead of the full :Sfind. It's an extra Shift
> > keystroke.
>
> That is a shame. Regrettably I have enough coding to do without hacking
> through the source for vim and getting it to compile on Windows; I'm
> sure I could do it in Linux in a couple of minutes but that wouldn't
> help me at work much! Curses. However I have found a rather nice
> solution (see below).
>
>
> > An (untested) alternative I just thought of is to do something like
> this
> > (Vim 7):
> >
> > cnoremap <silent><expr>:
> getcmdpos()==1?toupper(nr2char(getchar())):':'
>
> That is rather great, although it doesn't work with the <silent> tag in
> there. That is, it DOES work, but it is somewhat confusing. Because of
> the <silent> the result of the ":getchar()" will not be displayed in the
> command line, meaning if you enter "::sf" then you will see on the
> command line ":f ". Note the space after the "f". If you now press
> backspace the command line changes to ":S". Removing the <silent> makes
> the remapping of : work perfectly.
>
> However I was playing around and came up with an alternative mapping
> which makes me grin all over. It is a really logical continuation of the
> remapping of : that you provided:
>
> cnoremap <expr>sf getcmdpos()==1?'Sf':'sf'
>
> Brilliant! It works exactly as I want, and if you pause after the "s"
> before typing the "f" (for timeoutlen) then it aborts the remap and
> gives you a lowercase "sf".
>
> Thanks for your help Gerald, I hope this thread helps others in their
> time of need!
>
> Max
I wasn't tracking the thread initially, but here is my input. Maps are
not the best approach for tasks like this, you should use abbreviations.
With maps, if you type sf anywhere on the commandline, it will become
Sf. You don't want that to happen in a filename right (well, if you are
on windows you might not care most of the time, but there are enough
other cases you should). I suggest you take a look at the cmdalias.vim
plugin that I wrong just for these cases. If you create an alias like
this:
call CmdAlias('sf', 'Sf')
call CmdAlias('sfind', 'Sfind')
it creates abbreviations such that they get changed only when they are
typed at the start of the command-line and when they are by themselves
(e.g, :sfix will not become :Sfix). I also added a tip recently which
shows how to use cmdalias.vim:
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1247
I use cmdalias plugin heavily and haven't faced any issues.
I was also experimenting with a plugin that would lookup filenames as
you type. Except for a bug in Vim completion bothering me, it works
well, and is usable. Instead of using the 'path' setting, it uses tags
created specially for filenames, so it is a lot faster, you can use
regular expressions and you get a dropdown with all the matching
filenames. If you are interested, let me know I will send you a zip.
--
HTH,
Hari
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