Combine . with @:

[Paolo Bolzoni]

Dear everyone,

It is possible to change the meaning of . so it repeats the last
command, whatever it was a normal command or a ex command? I find
confusing that I can type dw..., but not :cNext<cr>..

Yours faithfully,
Paolo

[Nikolay Pavlov]

2015-02-23 17:47 GMT+03:00 Paolo Bolzoni <paolo.bol...@gmail.com>:

Dear everyone,

It is possible to change the meaning of . so it repeats the last
command, whatever it was a normal command or a ex command? I find
confusing that I can type dw..., but not :cNext<cr>..

Dot was *never* meant to repeat non-editing commands. `dw` is repeated because you edit buffer with it, but something like `/foo` is not repeated by dot (though `d/foo` will). Repeating `:cNext` will completely break the meaning of dot because :cNext is not about editing anything.

Though Ex commands that edit something are not repeated by the dot as well.

 

Yours faithfully,
Paolo

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[Dave R]

Perhaps not what you're wanting, but you could always use key-remapping to short-cut editing and ex-cmd sequences, thus making 'repeating' easier.

---Dave.

[John Little]

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 3:47:10 AM UTC+13, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:

> It is possible to change the meaning of .

IMO we can't change the meaning of .; too many of us rely on it working the way it is.

It sounds like you want to record a macro. Maybe vim could always record a "default macro" if it's not otherwise recording; often I find myself regretting "I should have recorded that". Sorting out what resets that recording might be difficult...

Regards, John Little

[Tim Chase]

On 2015-02-23 15:47, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> It is possible to change the meaning of . so it repeats the last
> command, whatever it was a normal command or a ex command? I find
> confusing that I can type dw..., but not :cNext<cr>..

As others have mentioned, there's no way to expand the behavior of
the "." command to include things other than normal-mode changes. But
as you've found, using "@:" re-executes the last Ex command. However,
since it's a macro, subsequent executions can be performed with "@@"
which I find MUCH easier to type. And, as you detail, I do it
frequently with ":cn"ext to browse the quick-fix results. On rare
occasions where I'm doing a lot of them, I'll do a temporary
(non-.vimrc) mapping, something like

:nnoremap <space> :cn<cr>

which lets me just hit the space-bar to jump to the next result.

Also, just in case you need it, "g&" is an obscure "across all lines
in the file, repeat the last substitution with the same flags"
command, even if it's several items back in your command-line history.

:help g&
:help @@

-tim

[toothpik]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 06:46:07PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-02-23 15:47, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> > It is possible to change the meaning of . so it repeats the last
> > command, whatever it was a normal command or a ex command? I find
> > confusing that I can type dw..., but not :cNext<cr>..

> As others have mentioned, there's no way to expand the behavior of
> the "." command to include things other than normal-mode changes. But
> as you've found, using "@:" re-executes the last Ex command. However,
> since it's a macro, subsequent executions can be performed with "@@"
> which I find MUCH easier to type. And, as you detail, I do it
> frequently with ":cn"ext to browse the quick-fix results. On rare
> occasions where I'm doing a lot of them, I'll do a temporary
> (non-.vimrc) mapping, something like

> :nnoremap <space> :cn<cr>

> which lets me just hit the space-bar to jump to the next result.

I found a leader command useful:

let mapleader = ','
nnoremap <Leader>hhh :call HelpgrepScrollers()<CR>
function! HelpgrepScrollers()
silent! nmap <F6> :cnext<CR>
silent! nmap <S-F6> :cprev<CR>
echo 'helpgrep scrollers :cn and :cp mapped to F6 and S-F6'
endfunction


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