I guess the visual bell trashes a mapping, and I couldn't find any way to have vim ignore it (set vb t_vb="" just stops it flashing I guess), so I've removed the pl sequence and used a while loop for that process and all is now well.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Graham Lawrence <gl00...@gmail.com> wrote: > As my typical use of vim is applying the substitute command, I decided to > maintain a file of previously used such commands, and to grep a selection > of them back into my current buffer by providing grep with the first few > characters of the pattern for the substitute I wish to make. For that, I > have produced this mapping: > > " grep pattern from subs.vim into current buffer > imap <S-F8> \<Esc>xbPlplplplplp:s/\\*$//<CR>d$:r!grep " ^R"" subs.vim<CR> > > Note ^R is the blue text produced by the sequence ^V^R > > The imap RHS works as expected if run by hand as ex commands, but fails as > a mapping because one superfluous \ (inserted by the plplp sequence) > remains after the substitute that should remove them all. > e.g. the sequence /\([ is converted to \/\\\(\[\ instead of the required > \/\\\(\[ > > I have also tried pasting the \s from right to left and stripped > superfluous \ from the front end of the line, but got a similar result. > Any suggestions as to why this happens? > > -- > Graham Lawrence > -- Graham Lawrence -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
