On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:29:02PM +0200, Kim Schulz wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:08:39 +0200
> Luc Hermitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > I guess it is in the mark for place of last change, but I just cant
> > > get iabbrev to execute my movement command (other than using <left>
> > > <right> <up> <down>). Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > I finally converged to the use of search(), on a placeholder
> > regex-pattern. This way neither @/ nor the search history are messed
> > up by irrelevant patterns.
>
> I have been playing around with the search() but I couldn't quite get
> the hang of it.
> Could you maybe give me an example on how to use it in relation to an
> abbrev. What I tried was:
> :iabbrev for( for
> (!cursor!;<+++>;<+++>){\n<+++>\n}<C-R>=search('!cursor!',b)<cr>c/+>/e<cr>
>
> but this inserts the linenumber where it finds the placeholder.
> I would rather like it ro remove the placeholder and move the cursor
> there.
> any ideas?
That is because search() returns a value. It is a little odd that
you mix markers, using both !cursor! and <++>, but I guess that makes it
easier to jump back to the first one. This is a little closer to what
you want:
:iabbrev for( for(!cursor!;<+++>;<+++>){\n<+++>\n}<Esc>:call
search('!cursor!','b')<cr>cf!
Instead of using <C-R>= , I go into Command-Line mode with <Esc>: . I
added quotes around the 'b' flag for search() and I used f! (in Normal
mode) rather than /+>/e because (1) it goes to the end of the first
marker, not the second and (2) it does not affect the search history.
(It does affect the , and ; commands, though.)
HTH --Benji Fisher
