Re: expand "(" doesn't work

Hi,
You can use:
getline(".")[col(".")-1]
Best,
Marcin

On 23:00 Wed 01 Jun , sinbad wrote:
> On Jun 1, 11:19 pm, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> > On 2011-06-01, sinbad wrote:
> > > hi,
> >
> > > doesn't expand("<cword>") work if the cursor is under "(".
> > > it works for ")" though. any reason for this ?
> > > i am running vim 7.0
> >
> > I'm running 7.3.189 and it behaves differently.  I started vim as
> >
> >     $ vim -N -u NONE
> >
> > and used the line
> >
> >     Now is the (time) for all good men
> >
> > and the command
> >
> >     :echo expand("<cword>")
> >
> > with the following results.
> >
> >      Cursor   Command
> >     Location  Output
> >     --------  -------
> >        (       time
> >        t       time
> >        e       time
> >        )       for
> >
> > So, <cword> appears to refer to the word under the cursor or to
> > the first word to the right if the cursor is not on a word.  This
> > agrees with the documentation:
> >
> >     :help cword
> >     :help star
> >
> > The behavior at 5.4m.23 was to expand <cword> to an empty string.
> > (See $VIMRUNTIME/doc/version5.txt.)  I don't know when this changed
> > to the current behavior or what the behavior was at 7.0.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gary
>
> so, how can one read any char under the cursor. is there an equivalent
> <cchar>
>
>
> thanks
> sinbad
>
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