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solinent
solinent

Reputation: 1653

Partial vim commandline mapping

In vim, I want to do something like so

function! ModuleFile()
  let $module = input("Module of file> ")
  :e **/${module}_
endfunction
map <Leader>e :call ModuleFile()<CR>

What I expect is that for example, if I type for the module "ABC", I would get this commandline in vim:

:e **/ABC_

and then subsequently typing new text, like "name_of_file", would get me:

:e **/ABC_name_of_file

and finally pressing Enter would execute the command. The point of this is to be able to get tab completions.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 329

Answers (1)

Benoit
Benoit

Reputation: 79155

No need for sigils in vim script, ${...} or $var is for environment variables.

function! ModuleFile()
  let module = input("Module of file> ")
  let name   = input("Search pattern> ")
  execute 'args **/' . module . '_' . name
endfunction
map <Leader>e :call ModuleFile()<CR>

After your comment what you want is probably:

map <leader>e :args **/<c-r>=input("Module of file: ") . '_' . input("Search pattern: ")<cr>

Upvotes: 2

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