Re: How to search from inside a function

Hi Asis!

On So, 25 Dez 2011, Asis Hallab wrote:

> Merry Christmas to all!
>
> Hopefully anyone of you can help me with my latest problem:
>
> I want to write a function that extends the behaviour of t.T.f and F,
> so that the character-search does not stop at the end of the current line.
>
> I just could not get it to work with the built in function search(),
> because in order to emulate t<char> and T<char>,
> I need to call /char/e-1, which I cant do using search().
>
> So far I tried:
>
> function! ExtendT(searchChar)
> " search does not accept the 'e-1':
> " search('/'.a:searchChar.'/e-1')
> " can't be passed as "flag" to search:
> " search(a:searchChar, "/e-1")
> " eval does not work:
> " eval '/'.a:searchChar.'/e-1'
> " exe doesn't work either:
> " execute '/'.a:searchChar.'/e-1'
> endfunction
>
> Anyway, I am unsure, if getting the above function to work and mapping it
> to e.g. t,
> this will work as a movement-command in Vim?
> So will I be able to do ct#
> on the following (cursor-position is indicated by *):
>
> This is l*ine one
> and I want to change until here #.

onoremap <silent> <expr> t '/'.nr2char(getchar())."/e-1\n"

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian
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