Getting tab and windows movement with one key combination

Question

Recently I found this question: Is it possible to map one key to two commands, doing 2nd command only if first fails

It's working well, but I'd like it to work this way: when Alt-l is pressed, do ctrl-w l, but only when there is another window to the right. Otherwise, do gt. Same applies to alt-h.

Is this even possible? I can't find any {expr}'s that would could allow me to do such things

Answer 1

You can use winnr() function to get the current window number and then try to execute your mapping <c-w>l in this case. If the window number doesn't change then execute your other mapping, gt.

function! s:trywincmd(win, other)
  let winnr = winnr()
  execute 'silent! normal! ' . a:win
  if winnr() == winnr
    execute 'silent! normal! ' . a:other
  endif
endfunction

nnoremap <silent> <c-w>l :call <SID>trywincmd("\<lt>c-w>l", "gt\<lt>c-w>t")<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <c-w>h :call <SID>trywincmd("\<lt>c-w>h", "gT\<lt>c-w>t")<cr>

Note: Because this is a mapping we need escape < as the <lt> key-code.

For more help see:

:h keycodes
:h winnr()
:h execute
:h :normal