Re: expand "(" doesn't work

On Jun 1, 11:19 pm, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2011-06-01, sinbad wrote:
> > hi,
>
> > doesn't expand("<cword>") work if the cursor is under "(".
> > it works for ")" though. any reason for this ?
> > i am running vim 7.0
>
> I'm running 7.3.189 and it behaves differently.  I started vim as
>
>     $ vim -N -u NONE
>
> and used the line
>
>     Now is the (time) for all good men
>
> and the command
>
>     :echo expand("<cword>")
>
> with the following results.
>
>      Cursor   Command
>     Location  Output
>     --------  -------
>        (       time
>        t       time
>        e       time
>        )       for
>
> So, <cword> appears to refer to the word under the cursor or to
> the first word to the right if the cursor is not on a word.  This
> agrees with the documentation:
>
>     :help cword
>     :help star
>
> The behavior at 5.4m.23 was to expand <cword> to an empty string.
> (See $VIMRUNTIME/doc/version5.txt.)  I don't know when this changed
> to the current behavior or what the behavior was at 7.0.
>
> Regards,
> Gary

so, how can one read any char under the cursor. is there an equivalent
<cchar>

thanks
sinbad

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