Re: semicolon to repeat "f" delay

On Jan 20, 2015 1:23 AM, "Sergei Gerasenko" <gerases@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh yeah, quite a few mappings starting from ; Problem solved. Thanks, guys!
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Erik Falor <ewfalor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:22:05PM -0800, surge wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > What has always puzzled me is that the ";" command to repeat the last "f" or "F" command always takes too long. There's a noticable delay which I think happens because vim waits if something is about to follow the ";". As a result I prefer to use "f" one more time instead.
>> >
>> > Why the delay and what to do about it?
>>
>> You probably have one or more mappings which begin with ";".  The
>> delay happens because Vim needs to see if you are going to type
>> another character, which will determine whether you want to execute
>> the mapping or use the default behavior of ";".
>>
>> Try
>>
>>     :verbose map ;
>>
>> to find out which mappings begin with ";" and whence they come.
>>
>> The duration of the delay is also configurable.  See
>>
>>     :help timeoutlen
>>
>> for more information about that.
>>
>> --
>> Erik Falor
>> Registered Linux User #445632                  http://linuxcounter.net

I solved this problem by mapping ;; to ; as in:

noremap ;; ;

Now, I just hit it twice. Doesn't take much longer to do and is faster than waiting for the timeout.

Salman

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