Is it possible to create mappings with parameters?

Question

I have created a few mappings like so:

:nnoremap <buffer> <leader>xyzABC   :call SomeFunc('ABC')<CR>
:nnoremap <buffer> <leader>xyzDE    :call SomeFunc('DE')<CR>
:nnoremap <buffer> <leader>xyzFoo18 :call SomeFunc('Foo18')<CR>
:nnoremap <buffer> <leader>xyzBar22 :call SomeFunc('Bar22')<CR>

which works as desired.

I am now looking for a possibility to create a map-template that would allow me to remove the obvious redundant parts of my mappings, something like

:nnoremap <buffer> <leader> xyz? :call SomeFunc(?)<CR>

so that I could pass any value as parameter to SomeFunc.

Is there such a possibility?

Answer 1

As @peter-rinckler said, it is probably easier to do it with a command:

command! -nargs=* Xyz :call SomeFunc(<q-args>)

Makes it possible to do (in normal mode)

:Xyz ABC

I don't really like the input() because you can't repeat those kinds of things easily.

Answer 2

Thanks to Peter Rincker's comment, I have found the answer:

:nnoremap <buffer> <leader> xyz :call SomeFunc(input('Param: '))<CR>

Answer 3

You might want to take a look at SnipMate, which aims at giving TextMate-like snippets to vim. It proved very helpful to me, anyway.