Re: How can I set cursorline only during a search?

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 03:45:56 UTC+8, Andy Wokula wrote:
> Am 13.06.2018 um 21:04 schrieb Bok Woon Chua:
> > I don't use the cursorline, but I would find it helpful to set it
> > during a whenever I press 'n' or 'N' to make the line of the current
> > search match pop out. However once I press anything other than n or
> > N, I'd like to turn the cursorline off. I can do something like
> > 'nnoremap n :setlocal cursorline<CR>n', but I'm not sure how I can
> > conditionally turn it off provided the next key I press isn't an 'n'
> > or 'N'. Any ideas how I could do this?
>
> cool demo for the incomplete mapping technique ...
>
> nnoremap <script><silent> n n:set cul<CR><SID>_search__
> nnoremap <script><silent> N N:set cul<CR><SID>_search__
>
> nnoremap <script> <SID>_search__n n<SID>_search__
> nnoremap <script> <SID>_search__N N<SID>_search__
> nnoremap <silent> <SID>_search__ :set nocul<CR>
>
> --
> Andy

Oh wow I'm not sure what you mean by incomplete, but it works. However I'm not sure what's going on. To my understanding <SID> is used for calling script functions prepended with an 's:', but where is the definition for the '_search__' function here?

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