[vox-tech] vim question: making mapping atomic w.r.t the '.' command

[Matt Roper]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:00:10AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Mon 29 Nov 04,  6:27 PM, Henry House <hajhouse at houseag.com> said:
> > I have a nice mapping in Vim 6:
> > 
> > 	:nmap gfe cw\empf{^[pa}^[
> > 
> > which emphasises a word when the buffer contains LaTeX source.
> 
> 
> This macro works, but you have to position the cursor on the beginning of the
> word, otherwise, you end up with only a part of the word emphasized.  Another
> strategy would be:
> 
>    1. Find the previous space character.
>    2. Move the cursor right by one.
>    3. Then change the word.
> 
> Here would be that strategy expressed as a macro:
> 
>    :nmap gfe F lcw\empf{<esc>pa}<esc>
>  
> The deficiency with my macro is that it doesn't work on the first word of
> each line since there's no space before it.
> 
> The benefit is that you can be "anywhere" in the word (provided the word
> doesn't start a new line) and it'll work.
> 
> Depends on which you find is the bigger annoyance.  ;-)

I believe an easier solution to this problem would be:

    :nmap gfe ciw\empf{^[pa}^[

Changing 'cw' to 'ciw' tells vim to change the word the cursor is inside
of so this should work anywhere, including the start of a new line.


Matt

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