zdcthomas / medit

a macro editing vim plugin

NOTE

Note You don't need this plugin! Instead, there's a very easy keymap that you can use that will do basically the exact same thing!

Neovim Lua:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<Leader>eq", function()
  -- ask user for which register they'd like to edit
	local reg = vim.fn.getchar("Macro Register: ")

	-- Obtain the content of the register
	local reg_content = vim.fn.getreg("q")

	-- Present the register content to the user to edit
	local replaced_reg_content = vim.fn.input("> ", reg_content)

	-- Take the user input and put it back into the register
	vim.fn.setreg(reg, replaced_reg_content)
end, { silent = true, desc = "Edit a macro" })

The vimscript version is almost identical because vim.fn.xxxx is simply a wrapper around the vimscript functions.

Medit (Macro Edit)

Ever work on a long macro and need to change something about it half way through? sure ya have. This'll let you open up a nice window (either floating or split) where you can edit your macro. Neat huh?

Demo

Default Usage

open up the window with

  <Leader>q{macro register you care about}

Then when you're done editing, just hit q and it'll save the macro to the register you wanted, or hit <esc> to abort! Cool!

Setup

MEdit should have default mappings out of the box, but you can set your own mappings if you want using let g:medit_no_mappings = 1 and then nmap {whatever you want} <Plug>MEdit

Coming Soon

• Preview for changes to lines in the buffer you called things from
• Preserving your clipboard

medit's Issues

Bug in simple script?

I tried the simple script in your readme, and had to change it to the following to fix some issues:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<Leader>eq", function()
  -- ask user for which register they'd like to edit
  print("Macro register: ")
  local reg = vim.fn.getcharstr()

  -- obtain the content of the register
  local reg_content = vim.fn.getreg(reg)

  -- present the register content to the user to edit
  local replaced_reg_content = vim.fn.input("> ", reg_content)

  -- take the user input and put it back into the register
  vim.fn.setreg(reg, replaced_reg_content)
end, { silent = true, desc = "Edit a macro" })

With these fixes in place, I was able to edit the register. However, any special characters, such as backspace, are lost. Do you have any idea on how we can preserve them?