Hi,
I was trying to write a vmap for a custom text-object, and I could
move the cursor to select the text by using a search specified
directly within the vmap, but if I tried to instead put those searches
in separte functions and call those functions from within the vmap, it
didn't work.
So this worked:
vmap ac <ESC>?^:<CR>V/^:<CR>k
but this (which is the same, but with the searches put into functions)
didn't
function! NextSection()
call search("^:", "Ws")
endfunction
function! PrevSection()
call search("^:", "bWs")
endfunction
vmap ac <ESC>:call PrevSection()<CR>V:call NextSection()<CR>k
and neither did this
function! PrevSection()
execute "?^:"
endfunction
function! NextSection()
execute "/^:"
endfunction
vmap ac <ESC>:call PrevSection()<CR>V:call NextSection()<CR>k
(BTW, this is for a text file format I'm using that contains sections
delimited by headings - a heading is just a line that starts with a
colon.
e.g.
:section 1 heading
text of section one
::section 1.1 heading
some more text
:section 2 heading
the text of section 2
)
Something to do with executing the searches from within functions
seems to take Vim out of visual mode - thus making the vmap not work.
I haven't be able to understand why this is - would anyone be able to
explain it to me? Is there a way to execute the search from within a
function, without going out of visual mode?
Thanks,
James.
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
