On 2006-11-27, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all :)
First of all, please excuse if what I'm going to ask sounds
stupid, but I have been using vim for less than a week, so I'm afraid
I'm not very proficient with it ;)
Well, I've done this mapping to be able to jump to the next tag
in the help file using TAB:
:nnoremap silent buffer TAB /\|\S\+\|CR:nohlCRl
The problem is that when I hit TAB, the tags flash a bit,
because the search command highlight them and the :nohl turns hl
off. Moreover, this interferes with my searchs, if any.
What I want is to be able to do the above without interfering
with searches. I've been looking for a way of jumping into a pattern
without using search() or /, but I haven't found any. I've tried
:tag and friends, too, with no success :( I want to do this because
I'm spending a lot of time in the help right now, so I want a fast
way of jumping thru help tags.
Do anybody has any suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance :)
If you execute search() within a function, you won't lose the
previous search pattern. So you could do something like this.
function HelpTagSearch()
call search('|\S\+|')
endfunction
nmap silent buffer TAB :call HelpTagSearch()CR
See
:help :endf
and read the immediately-preceding paragraph.
Also note that | is not special in vim regular expressions, so it
should not be escaped.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
