Just what I need. Thank you!

Gary Furash | 520-907-2470 | furashg...@gmail.com


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tony Mechelynck <
antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/07/10 18:42, Gary wrote:
>
>> How would you get the output of :map and :map! to save to a file?
>>
>>
> see :help :redir
>
> For a list which wouldn't need to be fed back as input to Vim,
>
>        :let save_more = &more
>        :set nomore
>        :redir! > ~/mappings.txt
>        :0verbose map
>        :0verbose map!
>        :redir END
>        :let &more = save_more
>
> would be enough. If you _do_ need to feed it back, then you would need a
> number of substitutes. The points to be taken care of are:
>        - removing the xxx on each line
>        - beware of special characters (space, quote, bar, bslash, etc.)
>        - Console Vim may list termcap codes rather than <> codes
>        - linked groups are to be treated differently than the rest
>        - coded symbols for
>                nmap, vmap, imap etc.
>                (nore)map
>                <expr>
>                <buffer>
>                        etc., see :help :map-arguments
>          are to be translated. See also :help map-listing
>        - the possibility of <buffer> mappings may require repeating the
> :map and :map! commands for each buffer, but the script to be sourced will
> have to know how to set the <buffer> mappings in the buffer they are meant
> for...
>        - and maybe others which don't cross my mind at the moment
>
> The actual code to use in this case is left as an exercise to the student.
>
>
> ...oh, and maybe you can take advantage of the :mksession command,
> see
>        :help :mksession
>        :help 'sessionoptions'
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
> As I was going up Punch Card Hill,
>        Feeling worse and worser,
> There I met a C.R.T.
>        And it drop't me a cursor.
>
> C.R.T., C.R.T.,
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