Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11:13:41 AM UTC-5, DrChip wrote:
> Richard Mitchell wrote:

> > I had trouble getting this to work.
> >
> > The first issue was SaveWinPosn was not defined. I found it in cecutil.vba, but I don't see this being mentioned as a prerequisite.
> >
> > Currently it doesn't seem to do anything, but hitting 'n' produces:
> >
> > E486: Pattern not found: \%(\%>0l\%<34l\)&MYSTRING
> >
> > (where MYSTRING is what was being searched for and does exist in the current C function).
> > It looks like 34 is the line after what may be considered the first block as enclosed by {}, but not the block the cursor is currently sitting.
> >
> > Is there more magic needed or is my environment conflicting?
> >
> Sorry about the SaveWinPosn problem -- funcsrch was on the wrong list so
> it didn't have cecutil.vim bundled with it. My website's version of
> funcsrch now has cecutil bundled with it.
>
> Do the normal mode commands [[ and ][ go to the beginning and ending of
> the function your cursor is in? Its possible that your style of coding
> prevents vim's method of recognizing beginning-ending of functions from
> working, and FuncSrch uses that.
>
> Regards,
> Charles Campbell

I started using vi around 30+ years ago and considered myself reasonably competent (as a user), but I did not know about those two mode commands.

][ takes me to the end of the current function, or the next function if already at the end
[] takes me to the end of the previous function
]] takes me to the end of the file
[[ takes me to the beginning of the file

so no, they don't work exactly as you describe, at least [[ does't. I tried vim -u NONE file.c and still got the same behavior. If I have changed the default behavior, it is only because I've loaded someone's plugin with said side-effect. I use vim, I don't write stuff for vim. Obviously I'm prone to getting sucked into "that looks neat, lets try it!" or we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Thanks,
Richard

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