Repeating a combination of commands mapped to a single key

Question

I have a mapping to "Stamp" text over the current word that cursor is on: nnoremap S "_diwP. When I do S and then try to repeat it with dot . only the last command will be repeated: P.

Is it possible in vim to alter the mapping (somehow grouping the commands?) so that . will repeat all of it? In other words, is it possible to repeat a compound command like "_diwP with . in vim?

Close to being answers:

• I know that in this particular case the command could be rewritten with c instead of d+p.
• Also the command could be recorded as a macro and repeated with @ but that is not as convenient as using .

Answer 1

If you have tpope's vim-repeat, you can do something like the following:

nnoremap S :call Stamp()<CR>

function Stamp() abort
  normal! "_diwP
  silent! call repeat#set("S", -1)
endfunction

You can do it without the function, but this is a bit clearer in my opinion.