New answers tagged cursor-motions
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POSIX has this to say on the matter (emphasis added by me): https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
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The [[, ]], (, ), {, and } commands are all affected by "section boundaries", but in some historical implementations not all of the commands recognize the same section boundaries. This is a bug, not ...
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_fe should go to the first occurrence of e on that line. Can you give an example of where it doesn't?
From :h _:
_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
character linewise.
In other words, _ without a count moves to the first non-blank character of the current line, then fe goes to the first ...
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I thought it might be helpful for others if I posted my final solution to my initial problem, although my directly asked question has been answered.
With the help of Matt's obviously correct answer, I changed (copied from existing plugins) my final function to:
function! SendWithMotion(type)
if a:type == 'line'
let lines = { 'start': line("'["...
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Obviously, v means charwise selection, while you've got the linewise one (ip). So you must check the value of a:type and build the command in the right way with the help of :execute or plain :if etc.
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I've had these mappings in my dotfiles for years and they are so useful that I forgot that it's not a built-in feature:
" Quickly insert an empty new line without entering insert mode {{{
nnoremap <Leader>o o<Esc>0"_D
nnoremap <Leader>O O<Esc>0"_D
They are the equivalent of o and O but without entering insert mode. The ...
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If installing a plugin is an option, Tpope's vim-unimpaired is a great pick which provides a mapping to insert empty lines:
]<space> to insert a line under the current line
[<space> to insert a line above the current line
Both accept a count, so 42]<space> will put 42 new lines under the current position.
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So I tested your code a bit and I realized that the issue with your backward search comes from the flag z, I don't really have a convincing explanation because reading the doc I would have used it too.
'z' start searching at the cursor column instead of Zero
I changed your pattern to a simple . and realized that <c-h> only matched the last character ...
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As Matt says, use {operator}vj as per :help forced-motion. You can force line-wise, character-wise, and block-wise (think of it like "casting" the motion).
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Usually you would have a separate mapping for an operator that would work on the current line and take a count to work on a set of lines. For example, you could have RJ{motion} to act on a motion or text object, and RJJ to act on the current line or on a set of lines if given a count.
Having said that, you can have your mapping behave differently and act on ...
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