>
> > >> >> Maybe this will give some insight: doing @; gives errors about
> an
> > >> >> invalid register ';' but doing @: is (apparently) a no-op.
> > >> >
> > >> > Sounds like a bug. : should be a register too. If it
> > interprets @; as
> > >> > the ; register, then it should interpret @: as the : register.
> > >> >
> > >> > --Ken
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> Under ":help quote:" it is expicitly said that @: should repeat
> the
> > >> latest ex-command.
> > >>
> > >> You can also use any of
> > >> ":p
> > >> ":P
> > >> :put:
> > >> :reg:
> > >>
> > >> to see what is there. Of course, if it were empty it would be a
> > no-op.
> > >> But here, even after using : as the ex-command the register
> doesn't
> > >> become empty, and since it's a read-only register you couldn't do
> > >> :let @: = ""
> > >
> > >
> > > That's still a bug though, right? @: doesn't execute the latest
> > > ex-command. And @; should map to @: but doesn't...
> >
> > One of the two following cases should be true:
> > Case 1: @: maps to @;
> > @; maps to @:
> > Case 2: @: maps to @:
> > @; maps to @;
> > Case 2 really should be the case. (You're suggesting that case 1
> should
> > be the case, and I disagree with that.)
> >
> > In my testing, it appears that @; is complaining about the invalid ;
> > register (like Case 2) and when I type @:, it beeps at me rather than
> > executing the command. If I type ":p, it pastes the last command just
> > fine (without a leading : or ;). So something's special-casing the @:
> > code, and the mappings are messing it up. That's what sounds like a
> bug.
> >
> >
> > Well, does anyone have any ideas for a workaround? I was thinking an
> > autocommand that would copy ';' + @: + '<cr>' to @z or something. Then
> > I could still use it, just with a different register.
>
> Hm, what happens if you use one of the following {rhs}es in a
> Normal-mode mapping? Then you wouldn't need to copy the ex-command
> register contents except when you really need it.
>
> :exe @:<CR>
> or
> :let @@ = @: <Bar> exe @@<CR>
> or
> :let @@ = @: <Bar> normal @"<CR>
>
> Notes:
> 1. I'm clobbering the unnamed register as the one least likely to hold
> "valuable permanent data".
> 2. The above is for use in a mapping. To try it directly at the
> command-line, use | instead of <Bar> and hit the Enter key (to execute
> the ex-command) instead of <CR>.
>
This is close! The first choice works once:
:let @@ = @: <Bar> exe @@<CR>
But then of course @: has changed so I have to do exe @@. I can live with
that for now, but I'd still prefer that the @@ actually included a ; and a
<CR> so that I can just do @@ instead of ;exe @@<CR>. Of course I'll do it
with a mapping, but hopefully I won't have to do that forever and I'd like
to do this the real vim way.
Thanks again for your help Tony! I'll make mappings now.
--
fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
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