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>:nohl<CR>l > > 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 -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA