sneak next with ; remapped

[jayflo]

I have the following bindings in my .vimrc

let mapleader=","
nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;

When after using s{char}{char}, pressing : (nor ; ...of course) does not work move to the next instance. I've also tried binding : to SneakNext and VSneakNext, neither of which work. What am I doing incorrectly?

[justinmk]

If I understand correctly, you want : to be your "go to next match" key.

First you need to remove the last line, because what's it's telling Vim to do is:

Make : act like the Vim default ;

But what we really want is to let Sneak manage : so your full settings will look like this:

let mapleader=","
nnoremap ; :
nmap : <Plug>SneakNext
xmap : <Plug>VSneakNext

The xmap line is for visual-mode. You can remove it if you don't want : to go to the next match in visual-mode.

Edited to remove copy-paste oops.

[justinmk]

Note that it is very important to use nmap instead of nnoremap for <Plug> mappings because <Plug> mappings are inherently recursive. It makes no sense to tell Vim to non-recursively map a <Plug> mapping.

[jayflo]

Thank you so much for your quick response! It's a great plugin!

[justinmk]

You're welcome! Thanks for the feedback.