From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:10:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] rev-parse: teach "git rev-parse --symbolic" to print the full ref name
Message-ID: <3849CD8A-A86C-4297-899F-F1B7C1E81F2C@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <30641295-495B-4E5E-9D44-5CAF7C480DF2@zib.de>


On Oct 28, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> I can't teach vim to always place the '*' correctly. At least I
> don't know how to do this.

I did some research (I was curious), and the following in your .vimrc  
will do it:  (Mildly tested)

-----8<-----

" Needed to avoid 'char * '
func s:Eatchar(pat)
let c = nr2char(getchar(0))
return (c =~ a:pat) ? '' : c
endfunc

" Make creating the abbreviation for multiple types easier
func s:FixPointer(type)
exec "iabbr " . a:type . "* " . a:type . " *<C-R>=<SID>Eatchar('\ 
\s')<CR>"
endfunc
command -nargs=1 FixPointer call <SID>FixPointer(<args>)

" Change the following pointer types (char* var -> char *var)
FixPointer 'char'
FixPointer 'int'
FixPointer 'void'

-----8<-----

Repeating the last line for each type you want to fix the pointers  
for.  There may be a simpler way to do some of this, but I don't know  
it.  But once it's set up each time you type in "char* var", Vim will  
auto-correct to "char *var".

Changing this to operate only in C, or only if you're starting in your  
git repository is left as an exercise for the reader.  ;-)

~~ Brian