On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:59:46 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Tue, March 19, 2013 17:43, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2013-03-19, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > >> On Fri, March 15, 2013 20:29, Gary Johnson wrote: > > >> > > >> > Should the function of "!" in :normal and of "nore" in mappings be > > >> > extended to also ignore any non-default settings of 'cedit'? > > >> > > >> I think, plugin writers should take care of properly escaping > > >> the cedit key by themselves. That is, if they issue a search like this > > >> :exe "norm! /" > > >> they need to take care to replace the cedit key by Ctrl-V cedit key. > > > > > > But the writer in this case was not trying to use the cedit key--he > > > was innocently using another key (<Esc>) that I had chosen to be the > > > cedit key. > > > > I don't see, how this is different from other settings that might > > interfer plugins (e.g. 'gdefault', 'magic', 'remap', 'ed'). > > > > Say you don't want to use the search() function, > > but want to use > > :exe variable > > with variable being something like 'norm! /....<Esc>' > > > > There shouldn't be a problem with first substituting that variable by > > :let variable = substitute(variable, &cedit, '^V'.&cedit, 'g') > > where ^V is the literal Ctrl-V (and not the 2 distinct characters ^ and V) > >
I think this use case is different. The plugin writer is already trying to be careful, by using :norm! instead of :norm to avoid user mappings. Besides cedit, are there other options which need escaping? Maybe 'pastetoggle'? Any others? -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
