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Pubby
Pubby

Reputation: 53027

Remap the prefix key of text objects

I'd like to change the prefix key of every text object command. For instance:

aw -> qw
as -> qs
ap -> qp

and so on.

I have tried creating a very long list of xnoremap and onoremap that change one text object command per remap, but this is a very bad solution.

Is there a way I can do this easily?

Also, I would like all the old commands to be unmapped so that they don't interfere.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 296

Answers (3)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

I'd utilize a for loop to avoid the repetition:

for textObject in ['w', 's', 'p']
    execute printf('xnoremap q%s a%s', textObject, textObject)
    execute printf('onoremap q%s a%s', textObject, textObject)

    " Remove the original commands.
    execute printf('xnoremap a%s <Nop>', textObject)
    execute printf('onoremap a%s <Nop>', textObject)
endfor

Upvotes: 2

benjifisher
benjifisher

Reputation: 5112

Other editors may have a model of functions and key-bindings, but vim does not. Vim has built-in commands and user-defined mappings. You can clear the latter, but there is no way to "unmap" a built-in command.

You could use the 'langmap' option to swap the meaning of a and q. This is very similar to one of the examples given under :help 'langmap':

:set langmap=aq,qa

Read the help to see exactly what this does and does not affect. Of course, this means that you will have to use a to start or end recording a macro and q to append. You can try to undo that with

:nnoremap a a
:nnoremap q q

but I am not sure how well that will work.

Upvotes: 0

xautjzd
xautjzd

Reputation: 309

Why do you want to change text object command?Do the default have any problems?If you have to do so,I think you can do like this:

nnoremap dqw daw
nnoremap dqs das
nnoremap dqp dap
...

Upvotes: 0

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