From: Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: glued Cursor trick anyone ? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:33:43 -0500
> > If it is not too much effort to you I would like to know these > > "bad hacks" -- just to learn a little more about "hacking vim" > > and not necessaryly (ough, this world looks also very > > "hackish"...german English....) to make them the base of all > > my later VIMy programming. > > > > Generally I think one can learn a lot about using technique in > > ways, no one else has thought about before..... ;O) > > Generally, folks would get fired for writing stunts like the > following, so read with caution... > > Archived here: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/38930 > > you'll find these two lines from my post: > > nnoremap / :exec('cnoremap <'.'cr> <'.'cr>:exec("cunmap > <"."cr>")<'.'cr>:call HighlightCurrentSearch()<'.'cr>')<cr>/ > > nnoremap ? :exec('cnoremap <'.'cr> <'.'cr>:exec("cunmap > <"."cr>")<'.'cr>:call HighlightCurrentSearch()<'.'cr>')<cr>? > > They are hideous monstrosities, that don't quite do all that I > described in my previous post. The basic gist is that you want to > remap the "/" and "?" keys so that when you press them, you > create a cnoremap mapping that maps the <cr> (and, unimplemented > in this example, also <esc> and <c-c>) to perform the action > "cunmap the <cr> mapping, and then do my custom action". > > In this case, the custom action was to call the > HighlightCurrentSearch() function defined in the post, as desired > by the OP. In your case, you'd want to tweak it to do a "zz" > instead. > > Caveat Vimtor...if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. If it > kicks your dog, drinks your beer, steals your girlfriend, wrecks > your pickup-truck, or any other tragedy found in country-music, I > take no responsibility...it's an ugly hack. YMMV. > > -tim Hi Tim, thanks a lot for the secrets ! :))) I really enjoyed reading your mail -- not only for the vimy stuff but also for the words as such... :O) Keep hacking ! ^ ! mcc
