Re: Function to put full stop at the end of my sentences -> refining

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Eric Smith wrote:

> Eric Smith wrote on Sun-10-Feb 13 1:55PM
>> This works great for me, thanks Benjamin.
>>
>> E.
>>
>> Benjamin R. Haskell wrote on Thu-07-Feb 13 4:39PM
>>> ino <expr> <CR> getline('.') =~ '\w$' ? ".\<CR>" : "\<CR>"
>
> I am trying (and failing) to modify this so that with lines commencing
> with certain words like;
> Dear
> Geachte
> Foobar
> ... must not have a full stop inserted.
>
> Tried using \@<!
>
> How should I do this?

Here's how I'd do that. For starters, I'd modify the 'fun! ... endf'
version, rather than the one-liner.

fun! LazyFullStop()
let line = getline('.')
let firstword = matchstr(line, '\w\+')
if line =~ '\w$' && -1 == index(['Dear','Geachte','Foobar'], firstword)
return ".\<CR>"
end
return "\<CR>"
endf
ino <expr> <CR> LazyFullStop()

That's case-sensitive (which may be what you want).

If you want to allow leading spaces before the "forbidden" words, you
can change:

let firstword = matchstr(line, '\w\+')

To:

let firstword = matchstr(line, '\%(^\s*\)\@<=\w\+')

And if you really want the one-liner:

ino <expr> <CR> getline('.') =~ '\%(^\s*\%(Dear\\|Geachte\\|Foobar\)\>.*\)\@<!\w$' ? ".\<CR>" : "\<CR>"

--
Best,
Ben

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