On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 14:22:06 UTC+2, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:20:56 UTC+2, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday, November 14, 2014 5:44:45 AM UTC-6, Enno wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there, perhaps via a Plugin, a way to recover the second last text editing operation in normal mode ? The dot '.' operator keeps only the last operation.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Nope. This would not be possible, unless every single key is
> > > remapped in every single mode, or if somehow macros were being
> > > recorded constantly.
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually, maybe he should just record continuously, say type qz and
> > > work for a while and then type q and spit out the z reg to somewhere
> > > and take what he likes from it. Doesn't sound like it would take a
> > > lot of resources.
> >
> > or maybe a plugin that stores an array of 5-10 "last used" operations
> > and updates this FILO list each time one exists insert mode. One could
> > access these edit operations with, say, `N<leader>.` where `N` is the
> > index of the operation.
>
> Plugins having to install a lot of maps to be able to know what was
> typed before the key that triggers an action is clumsy.
>
> How about Vim keeping a list of the last N typed keys?
> Suppose there is a function keyhistory(1), where the argument is how far
> back you look.
>
> I wonder how that would be used in a plugin.
>
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wasn't implying that it has to install a lot of maps, just one map is enough the N is just used as an index, much like the way "1z=" takes the first suggestion to fix a spelling error.
Or maybe i don't understand what you're meaning by what you said
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