On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > how about at the end of your function: > > normal! gvy > > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Thiago Padilha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to execute a certain function whenever I yank some text > > in visual mode and the best way I found to do this was to remap 'y': > > > > vnoremap <silent> y :call Hook()<cr> > > > > The problem is that this function replaces the default yank action so > > I need I way to manually yank from inside the function. Whats the best > > way to achieve this? > > > > -- > > -- > > 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. > >
> You could just call "y" at the beginning of the mapping: > > vnoremap <silent> y y:call Hook()<cr> > > This has the added advantage of making the yanked text available in the > Hook function in case you need to do something with it. > > You can do this because, first, you said "noremap" so the second "y" > wouldn't trigger the mapping and would just do a yank and, secondly, Vim > lets you start a mapped sequence with the keys that actually launched the > mapping and falls back to their default behaviour automatically to avoid > recursive mappings (so you could do this even if you hadn't specified a > noremap). -- -- 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.
