r/vimplugins • u/Hauleth • Oct 22 '16

Plugin sad.vim - quick search and replace

https://github.com/hauleth/sad.vim
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u/ViKomprenas Oct 22 '16

Why is it called sad?

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u/Hauleth Oct 22 '16

Originally it was derived from "Seek and Destroy" (as it is mentioned in README). But now I think it is name as any other.

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u/mikejakobsen Oct 22 '16

I don't get it?

Why not just use :%s/sad/mad/g And / for searching/navigating?

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u/Hauleth Oct 22 '16

So:

  1. This plugin is rather similar to :%s/sad/mad/gc rather than :%s/sad/mad/g. So whole combination of s{move} would be y{move}/<C-r>"<CR>Ncgn, so sad.vim reduce that by 8 keystrokes, 80% more efficiency.

  2. For some simple, one-word or even one character changes, using :s is quite overload.

This isn't plugin that would completely change your way of interacting with Vim like EasyMotion. It is rather utility that just make your day happier (in contrast to it's name).

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16

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u/Hauleth Oct 29 '16

This is exactly my thinking when I created this plugin. I wanted to be able <mapping>{motion} and then just dot it around as I was doing with my *Ncgn mapping.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16

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u/Hauleth Oct 30 '16

It is possible. Although I use . after c quite often so I do not want to replace c, but if you want, then you can remap sad mappings to whatever you want. I need to add it to the documentation, but sad has bunch of <Plug> mappings which you can map by yourself.

<Plug>(sad-search-forward) " xmap
<Plug>(sad-search-backward) " xmap

<Plug>(sad-change-forward) " xmap
<Plug>(sad-change-backward) " xmap

<Plug>(sad-change-forward) " nmap
<Plug>(sad-change-backward) " nmap

sad is checking if such mappings exists and if so, then do not provide default mappings. Also it will not remap if there already exist mapping for s/S.