key mapping and spaces on the rhs

[fleg]

hi,
i'd like to be able to do something like...

map L ?^\s\s*[a-z]

or

map L ?^ [a-z]|<tab>[a-z]</tab>

but i get the 'too many fields' or 'right-side not recognised' error messages.

i know that jvi doesnt implement all the functionality that vim does so i was wondering
if there is a different way to do this in jvi?
cheers,
fleg

ps in case you're interested :) what i'm trying to write is a macro that will find the
first line of the current java function i am in, i then (with the rest of the macro which isnt
shown here) find the function name and generate a logging statement which includes that name.

pps and whilst i'm here, thanks err for the visual beep fix that arrived recently!

[Ernie Rael]

According to the doc: http://jvi.sourceforge.net/vimhelp/map.txt.html#:map-special-keys

you can use: <Space>

re: visual bell, I hope people didn't mind too much making it the default; it seemed the most effective way to quietly announce the feature ;-)

[fleg]

>you can use: <Space>

hmm tried it, didnt work.

heres some things i've found :-

1/ just doing...

    ?   public

  works

2/ but...

    ?^    public

   doesnt

3/ this...

    ?<Space><Space>public

  also doesnt work

4/ so when i do...

    map L ?<Space><Space>public

    with no <CR> on the end. when i hit L it prompts me with...

    ?    public

    but also doesnt work when i hit <CR>

>re: visual bell, I hope people didn't mind too much making it the default; 
>it seemed the most effective way to quietly announce the feature ;-)

works for me!
cheers,
fleg

[Ernie Rael]

This works for me. Here's debug output generated with

Tools>Options>jVi>Debug>debugKeyStrokes

set to ALL. This is both the ":" command that creates the mapping and then using it, notice that it checks "L" and then returns "?". (I had to use noremap since I map the "^")

CommandAction: 'noremap L ?^<Space><Space><Space><Space>public<CR>'
parseMapCommand: noremap L ?^<Space><Space><Space><Space>public<CR>: Mapping{'L' --> '?^    public\n' mode=nvop, noremap}
putMapping(unmap false): Mapping{'L' --> '?^    public\n' mode=nvop, noremap}
putMapping: remove Mapping{'L' --> '?^    public\n' mode=nvop, noremap}
CharAction: 'L' 4c(76) 1
getChar check: 'L' noremap=false, state=0x101, G.no_mapping=0, G.allow_keys=0 G.no_zero_mapping=0
getChar: map: Mapping{'L' --> '?^    public\n' mode=nvop, noremap}
getChar check: '?' noremap=true, state=0x101, G.no_mapping=0, G.allow_keys=0 G.no_zero_mapping=0

I wonder if it could be some option setting or something like that. I have "use modal frame" UNchecked, it shouldn't matter, but that's the command input window.

[Ernie Rael]

BTW, the command "[m" is implemented. I don't use it much, not sure how well it works.

[Ernie Rael]

Forgot to mention that the "q" (recording) command might be of use as well. Not as convenient as a mapping, but...

Having any success?

[fleg]

sorry for the delay, was unexpectedly called away.

Having any success?

ha! well i've turned on the debug you suggested but i dont see any output.
when i start up nb, i get the jvi message about fixed-size fonts in the
output window, which is where i was expecting the debug to appear? am i making
some n00b mistake?

one other piece of info, i tried nb7.3.1, a fresh install of jvi with
all defaults settings left alone and nothing added and i get the same error.
cheers,
fleg

ps btw i'm on os x lion, but surely the os coulnt be the problem! ;)

[fleg]

ok, i lied. on nb7.3.1...

map L ?<Space><Space>public

works like i expect.

also tried unchecking modal frame on 7.4 and it didnt have any effect.

i'm not sure if this helps but i used the above mapping.

then when i hit L, i copy/pasted what it was prompting me with into an xterm,
and it displayed as ctrl-Fpublic, ie...

^Fpublic

cheers,
fleg

[fleg]

blush.

i had the space mapped to ctrl-f.

using normap works.

thanks for your help, i should have known better than to doubt jvi!
cheers,
fleg

[Ernie Rael]

i've turned on the debug you suggested but i dont see any output.

The debug output is done with System.err.print... which gets sent to the logger. The logger output goes both to

• messages.log - buffered (found in <userdir>/var/log)
• console - unbuffered

The output to the console may not be seen depending on how NB is started. I've got -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true in <nb-install>/etc/netbeans.conf. </nb-install>

I'm on Windows; in the icon that starts NB, I added "--console new". You might be able to use this on OSX. I'm guessing that if NB is started from a console then the output would just show up in the console.

[jiya sas]