Make f iterate through search results if pressed immediatly after use

[toomey8]

Wow. This is a fantastic plugin.

One feature I would really love is the way 'f' is used to repeat immediately after a motion, a la rhysd/clever-f.vim, especially because I've remapped ; to : in normal mode to make entering commands 50% easier.

Arguments for this:

• the chance that I want to do a second character sneak immediately after completing one seem small
• the f key is index finger, and much more agile for me than the pinky or ring finger
• frees up ; (with a recommendation to remap :, making command mode more accessible)

Would this be possible? Maybe crib from clever-f?

[justinmk]

Hmmm. It should be possible, but might be a few weeks before I get to it.

[toomey8]

Thanks!

[justinmk]

I'm starting to want this feature too :) Since you are familiar with clever-f, does it have a way to repeat the search after doing other things? Or repeat only works immediately after invoking f?

[toomey8]

Thanks for your response and help!

As I understand it, cleverf only works immediately post f, and it doesn't work with . to repeat on either vanilla . or with tpope repeat.

I would see this working in its simplest form as:

• If one invoked SneakForward or SneakBackward immediately after the 2 key identifier sequence then you would invoke SneakNext.
• Else / If there were any intervening keys, it would invoke a fresh Sneak(Forward|Backward) 2 key prompt.

At a deeper level though, I wonder if we are close to a more elegant combination of single key f and Sneak which combines short and medium motion jumps intuitively and flexibly.

Potential Option - Iterative combination of F and Sneak

• SneakForward to invoke

Then:

• b jumps to next b

Then:

• esc resets SneakForward, you are in normal mode

OR:

• u jumps to next bu

Then:

• SneakForward jumps to 2nd bu
• SneakForward jumps to 3rd bu
• ...

Else:

• Any key but SneakForward resets, you are in normal mode

The plusses of this would be:

• retain most of the functionality of both the standard (or clever) f key
• esc is mapped so accessibly for me it barely counts as an extra keystroke, so vanilla f mostly works
• has an iterative approach that makes intuitive sense to me:
  • can i get there with one letter (if yes, ok, great. we're done. esc)
  • no, ok, let me add a second letter
  • no, ok let me easily jump to next instance of the same 2 letter sequence by sneaking again with SneakForward key

This should mean that I can get anywhere +/- a few lines with just a few keystrokes (<5?) AND have to use only one key instead of F/f/S/s.

Not sure if this second idea is fully baked, but I think it would have great flexibility.

Other than the trouble of coding it, which might be huge and would be more than I can handle to be sure, I can't see a downside to just hitting esc if I realize that one letter got me where I wanted), and love the idea of doing this all with one key, plus not needing ;.

Again, thanks so much for your help. Moving medium distances in Vim is something I do a thousand times a day in Vim, so trying to make that nicer is a real gift.

[justinmk]

FYI, this is mostly implemented, possibly broken, in https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak/tree/experiment-clever_s

Not that you should waste your time trying out that branch, but just to update you. I think I like the feature, thanks for suggesting it! It works with counts too, so 5s goes to the fifth match. Furthermore, since s<Enter> repeats the last search, the need for ; and , is even more reduced.

But it is failing a few tests and I need to update the documentation and tie up some other things.

Regarding your second idea:

can i get there with one letter (if yes, ok, great. we're done. esc)
no, ok, let me add a second letter

I wouldn't be opposed to this except it kind of breaks streak-mode, because it potentially moves the window (if the first character has an off-screen match), which changes the potential targets. Even if you don't use streak-mode, I think it might be too "spammy", because it will match much more often than two letters, which means the first character will often move the window if there is off-screen text.

[toomey8]

Coo, thanks!

Is there an easy way to do branches with Vundle? If not I need to like actually learn GIT, which, obviously I know I am on github right now.

Yeah, I see your point. I think clever-f functionality + sneak might be great. I'll play with it more and let you know what I think.

Incidentally, I had 's' taken by fold/unfold so I mapped this to option S, and really like the ergonomics.

[justinmk]

Vundle infamously does not support "pinning" to a branch. VundleVim/Vundle.vim#35

But, the feature should be in master by next week...

[toomey8]

ahh, thanks! I suspected that.

All the best,

Brian

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, justinmk notifications@github.com wrote:

Vundle infamously does not support "pinning" to a branch. VundleVim/Vundle.vim#35VundleVim/Vundle.vim#35

But, the feature should be in master by next week...

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/41#issuecomment-33590415
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[justinmk]

Let me know how it goes...

[justinmk]

@toomey8 FYI, this feature is disabled by default now, because it is too surprising for new users. You can enable it like so:

let g:sneak#s_next = 1

Sorry for the inconvenience.