reset , ; when f remapped

[msprev]

vim-sneak is brilliant! Thank you for all your great work on it!

I use a Dvorak layout and I have s and f swapped (f is a pain to press in Dvorak). sneak is mapped to another key.

noremap s f
noremap S F

My problem is that sneak does not reset the binding of ; and , when I invoke an f-search by pressing the s key; ; and , remain bound to sneak. I can manually reset these bindings by calling sneak#reset('f'), but this is clunky to do after every f-search.

I realise that sneak is not designed to work with f-enhancements, but is there any workaround for getting sneak to work with simple remapping of f?

[justinmk]

Supporting alternate keyboard layouts is definitely a goal, although until now I hadn't heard any interest in it (even from non-US users).

I realise that sneak is not designed to work with f-enhancements,

Not out-of-the-box, at least :) But I always assumed it could be done with a creative mapping, but actually I think that was a bad assumption. The easiest way to achieve this right now is to let sneak take over your f and t (or s in your case). But it's understandable if you don't want that. Let me think about it.

[msprev]

Thank you! It's not a specific issue for Dvorak, only for those who have remapped the keys for whatever reason...

I'd like to keep the default f and t behaviour if possible. I find it useful with short-range movements to be restricted to moving inside a single line (when mashing ; or , for example)

I couldn't think of a mapping solution to do what I wanted. Ideally, I'd like my remapping of f and s to call sneak#reset('f') so that ; and , are freed from sneak. But I couldn't figure out how to do it.

Thanks again for your great work on sneak and neovim.

[justinmk]

It turns out my assumption was correct. Here's the "creative mapping" that should satisfy your request:

noremap <expr> s sneak#reset('f')
noremap <expr> S sneak#reset('F')

<expr> is important. Also, if you use a snippets plugin, you probably shouldn't use noremap, but instead should explicitly list nnoremap, xnoremap, and onoremap, like this:

nnoremap <expr> s sneak#reset('f')
nnoremap <expr> S sneak#reset('F')
xnoremap <expr> s sneak#reset('f')
xnoremap <expr> S sneak#reset('F')
onoremap <expr> s sneak#reset('f')
onoremap <expr> S sneak#reset('F')

Thanks again for your great work on sneak and neovim

You're welcome!

[justinmk]

Feel free to re-open if there's still a problem.

[msprev]

Brilliant! Thank you very much. I've learnt a new trick from this.