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I recently moved from vim-latex-suit to vimtex.
In vim-latex-suit, there was this awesome feature that when I press Ctrl-j, it jumps to where <++> is and replace that to the cursor.
To clarify,
I want
blah blah blah <++>
to be
blah blah blah |
where | is the position of the cursor.
I would like to implement the same feature by some command in .vimrc. Any ideas?
Sure:
nnoremap <C-j> /\V<++><CR>cgn
" if you want insert-mode versions, too
imap <C-j> <esc><C-j>
Or, if you don't want to mess with search history,
nnoremap <C-j> :call search('\V<++>')<CR>cf>
" insert-mode
imap <C-j> <esc><C-j>
<++> is and replace that to the cursor. It jumps to where <++> is, but it doesn't clear <++> and replace that with the cursor
cgn after a search. You could alternately start select mode with something like gh<C-o>//e<CR>. cgn has the advantage that it is (a) dot-repeatable and (b) after invoking the mapping or search, you can just type cgn for each instance you want to change.
:imap <C-j> <esc><C-j> :)