Asking with regards to implementing / and ? in operator-pending mode

@nmjcman101 (Sorry for not getting back to you earlier) I would recommend going with exe norm instead of feedkeys. They're pretty similar, but feedkeys can sometimes do weird things with the typeahead queue

It's kinda hard to explain the differences though, cause they rarely matter

Compare the difference between these two functions:

    function! Foo1()
      call feedkeys('a')
      let g:foo = getchar()
    endfunction

    function! Foo2()
      norm a
      let g:foo = getchar()
    endfunction

@DJMcMayhem In that case, I may change the Search function to use exe norm instead of feedkeys, because that worked better when I was adding operator-pending mode to the search operations.

That sounds like a good idea

Also was thinking about a "try macro" operator, so that nesting macros would be possible. Example where @q=l@q (Go to the end of the line), then @w=TRY(@q)axj0, running @w would put an x at the end of every line

Currently this would need to be @w=:try|exe"norm!@q"|endt^M

@nmjcman101 That wouldn't be very hard to implement. I could probably whip it up in ten minutes or so. (I was actually just thinking the same thing yesterday)

Actually wait, I don't think you need the try

So you could use the norm mapping

The norm just eats the error?

(@DJMcMayhem)

:O that's super awesome

Might be cool then to have ò record to successive registers (maybe q,w,e) so that it could be used multiple times or nested. Maybe that's already possible?

Woah, that's an awesome idea!

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@DJMcMayhem do you know which answer was mine? (just wondering if you have it on hand)

Uhhhhh....

I think it was hello world, let me go check

indeed it is! I really need to use V more

Hey, I actually wrote a (partial) tutorial!

github.com/DJMcMayhem/V/wiki/Tutorial

:O

And verbose mode should make it a lot easier too

@DJMcMayhem holy shit I haven't upvoted that lol

upvotes

what on earth is yanking in vim

it sounds like an australian insult

copy-pasting text basically

so, basically, copy <motion selection> to clipboard

i think so yeah

i don't vim too good tho so ask dj

@ConorO'Brien exactly. yw is like shift-ctrl-right, ctrl-c in traditional editors

oh cool!

And it works the same for every motion

Although to nitpick on terminology, s/clipboard/register

what's the dif?

there are many registers

each with their own name

iirc * is the yanking one

^^

it's basically vars in vim

@Riker no, that's the system register

ah

what's the yanking one then?

is the clipboard a vim register?

Yeah, one of them

The default register is called "The unnamed register", and that's what y Yanks to by default

ah