On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 at 11:18am, Max Dyckhoff wrote: > I completely forgot about abbreviations, although the remap that I came > up with doesn't work badly at all because it does check the command pos, > and I never use any other :sf* command than sfind. > > If you could send me a zip of your experimental plugin that would be > great, I'd love to give it a go! I'm using vim 7, if that helps. > > Thanks! > > Max
Sorry, I forgot that your map also has command position as restriction. Note that abbreviations have an advantage that they don't timeout (besides giving an immediate visual feedback, as you see what you are typing) and you can recover from mistakes. They also provide a way to enter the token without getting expanded, just in case you ever need to do that. But if you are happy with this, you probably shouldn't worry about these advantages. I will send you a zip of lookupfile.vim and its depenedent file soon. -- Thanks, Hari > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:16 AM > > To: Max Dyckhoff > > Cc: Gerald Lai; vim org > > Subject: RE: Tab complete filenames > > > > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 at 9:29am, Max Dyckhoff wrote: > > > > > > You're working on a large project, so I would advise caution when > > > doing > > > > tab completion. If you happened to be waiting on an accidental > (slow) > > > > completion like a<Tab>, then hit Ctrl-c to stop it. > > > > > > Yes, I love how vim is nice and intuitive if Linux stuff is > ingrained in > > > your every move :) > > > > > > > > > > Nope, no (easy) way. That's just how Vim was implemented. You > could > > > hack > > > > the source code though. > > > > > > > > If you don't have any other commands besides :Sfind beginning with > > > "Sf", > > > > you can just do :Sf instead of the full :Sfind. It's an extra > Shift > > > > keystroke. > > > > > > That is a shame. Regrettably I have enough coding to do without > hacking > > > through the source for vim and getting it to compile on Windows; I'm > > > sure I could do it in Linux in a couple of minutes but that wouldn't > > > help me at work much! Curses. However I have found a rather nice > > > solution (see below). > > > > > > > > > > An (untested) alternative I just thought of is to do something > like > > > this > > > > (Vim 7): > > > > > > > > cnoremap <silent><expr>: > > > getcmdpos()==1?toupper(nr2char(getchar())):':' > > > > > > That is rather great, although it doesn't work with the <silent> tag > in > > > there. That is, it DOES work, but it is somewhat confusing. Because > of > > > the <silent> the result of the ":getchar()" will not be displayed in > the > > > command line, meaning if you enter "::sf" then you will see on the > > > command line ":f ". Note the space after the "f". If you now press > > > backspace the command line changes to ":S". Removing the <silent> > makes > > > the remapping of : work perfectly. > > > > > > However I was playing around and came up with an alternative mapping > > > which makes me grin all over. It is a really logical continuation of > the > > > remapping of : that you provided: > > > > > > cnoremap <expr>sf getcmdpos()==1?'Sf':'sf' > > > > > > Brilliant! It works exactly as I want, and if you pause after the > "s" > > > before typing the "f" (for timeoutlen) then it aborts the remap and > > > gives you a lowercase "sf". > > > > > > Thanks for your help Gerald, I hope this thread helps others in > their > > > time of need! > > > > > > Max > > > > I wasn't tracking the thread initially, but here is my input. Maps are > > not the best approach for tasks like this, you should use > abbreviations. > > With maps, if you type sf anywhere on the commandline, it will become > > Sf. You don't want that to happen in a filename right (well, if you > are > > on windows you might not care most of the time, but there are enough > > other cases you should). I suggest you take a look at the cmdalias.vim > > plugin that I wrong just for these cases. If you create an alias like > > this: > > > > call CmdAlias('sf', 'Sf') > > call CmdAlias('sfind', 'Sfind') > > > > it creates abbreviations such that they get changed only when they are > > typed at the start of the command-line and when they are by themselves > > (e.g, :sfix will not become :Sfix). I also added a tip recently which > > shows how to use cmdalias.vim: > > > > http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1247 > > > > I use cmdalias plugin heavily and haven't faced any issues. > > > > I was also experimenting with a plugin that would lookup filenames as > > you type. Except for a bug in Vim completion bothering me, it works > > well, and is usable. Instead of using the 'path' setting, it uses tags > > created specially for filenames, so it is a lot faster, you can use > > regular expressions and you get a dropdown with all the matching > > filenames. If you are interested, let me know I will send you a zip. > > > > -- > > HTH, > > Hari > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
