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Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org
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Question on ( and ) in normal mode #137

Closed kacoroski closed 4 months ago

kacoroski commented 4 months ago

Hi,

These keys allow up to move to the enclosing s-exp with the cursor ending on the start of it '(' or the end of it ')'. I am trying to understand why this is useful as it would seem better to move to the next or previous s-exp by just moving to the next ( or ). Perhaps there is a different way to move between s-exp that I have not figured out yet.

Thanks,

ski

kovisoft commented 4 months ago

Well, this feature was added as a contribution by bitbucket user "dgrnbrg" (he called it 'smartjump') back in the times when slimv/paredit repository was still located on bitbucket.org (and that is gone now). TBH, I don't recall the original motivations. If you have any suggestions for improving this functionality, then let's discuss it.

Currently there are mappings ]] and [[ for jumping to the next/previous top level s-expression, maybe that's what you are looking for.

kacoroski commented 4 months ago

Ok, I found that I can load vim-sexp after slimv and I get all kinds of s-exp mappings :) The ones I was looking for are M-], M-[, M-{, and M-}. As far as I can tell, slimv and vim-sexp work well together. Closing this out. Thanks again for creating slimv.