Why does this mapping move my cursor?

2018-10-10 Thread Chris Lott
I have a mapping in my .vimrc :

nnoremap md :write:silent !open -a 'Marked.app' '%:p'

When I invoke the map, my cursor in Vim moves to the beginning of the line. 
This doesn't happen if I run the commands manually. Why does the cursor move 
and how can I stop it from doing so?

Thanks!

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Re: Why does this mapping move my cursor?

2018-10-10 Thread 'Jürgen Krämer' via vim_use
Hi,

Chris Lott schrieb am 10.10.2018 um 21:05:
>
> I have a mapping in my .vimrc :
>
> nnoremap md :write:silent !open -a 'Marked.app' '%:p'
>
> When I invoke the map, my cursor in Vim moves to the beginning of the
> line. This doesn't happen if I run the commands manually. Why does the
> cursor move and how can I stop it from doing so?

the problem is with the combination of  and  in your mapping.
The  will execute the :write command. After that Vim is in normal
mode, where  is a command to put the cursor in a specified column,
i.e. 10| would put the cursor in column 10. Because  stands on its
own in your mapping the cursor is put in the first column.

You only need either  or  between two commands on the right side
of your mapping. You can write it either as

  nnoremap md :writesilent !open -a 'Marked.app' '%:p'

or as

  nnoremap md :write:silent !open -a 'Marked.app' '%:p'

Regards,
Jürgen

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