Re: I need to fool vim to think buffer starts at column n

Gary, Tim,

Thank you for your suggestions. The %>8c trick works, and I also found another way:

:%s;\v\./\zs;;

However:

Since I don't want to type this every time, I made a cnoremap like so:

cnoremap %s %s/\v\.\/\zs

Which works, but what about all other operations that you can do on a buffer?
cnoremapping 'g' for example isn't great, and I'd like to perform any
arbitary function on the content in the buffer.

The most ideal solution would be to have vim completely ignore the first
columns, no matter what I do in the buffer.

I'm not sure what direction I should go at this point.

Check this short svg animation to see what I'm doing:
http://japh.se/vidir_col.svg

And this is the project itself: https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir

Cheers,
japh

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