Re: Tweaking $ command

On 08/20/2011 08:03 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/20/2011 06:05 PM, AK wrote:
>> Hi, I was trying to change $ command to go to N chars before the end of
>> line, and found it surprisingly hard to do. Here's what I come up with:
>>
>> func! EndOfLine()
>> exe "normal \<End>"
>> let c = v:count
>> let c2 = c - 1
>> let cmd = "normal " . c2 . "k" . c . "h"
>> if c | exe cmd | endif
>> endfu
>> nnoremap $ :<c-u>call EndOfLine()<cr>
>>
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> I got it working with:
>
> :nnoremap <silent> $ :<c-u>exec 'norm
> '.((virtcol('$')-v:count)<0?0:(virtcol('$')-v:count)).'<bar>'<cr>
>

Thanks, but that doesn't work right for me without the count (vim 7.3).
I think the function version is preferable for readability, as well. -ak

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