Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Re: Aliasing ex commands for typos

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 08:39:12 Danny Colligan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In ex mode, I often make the typo of having the first letter
> of the command capitalized (for instance, ":Set nu" instead of
> ":set nu") since my finger is still on the shift key after
> typing the colon. Some ex commands I have aliased such that
> this isn't a problem. Here is one line from my .vimrc:
> "command! Q quit". However, with other commands such as set,
> this kind of aliasing does not work, and vim does not
> recognize ":Set" as a valid ex command. Is there any way to
> make the ":Set nu" command behave identical to the ":set nu"
> command?

if you want to consider something different, if you never use
single line searches and repeat them, make your life easier and
put

nnoremap ; :

in your .vimrc -- ie, map semi-colon to colon, use the semi-colon
to start ex mode, and your finger won't be anywhere near the
shift key when it's time to start typing the command

sc

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