f and t in macros

[nathanbraun]

It doesn't look like f and t work in user recorded macros, example:

qqfaq

would record a macro that moves to the next 'a' in a line. If I do that, then move to another line and call it via:

@q

nothing happens. Is this something that could be added? Great plugin, thanks!

[rhysd]

Hi, @nathanbraun

Sorry for the delay 💦

I tried qqfaq -> @q and it seemed to work well in my environment (OS X 10.10 and Vim 7.4p383).
Could you please tell me your environment to reproduce this issue?

[JoseConseco]

6 years later I can confirm it does not work well with macros - if you use f 2x in row. eg:

use 'macro_wont/work'

We have cursor on beginning of line and macro is: go forward to second quote, and then paste text in there.
On replaying macro we should get:
use 'macro_wont/work'PASTE

But we get no result at all. Macro is: f'fp
@rhysd hope u can make it work since plugin is great

[rhysd]

@JoseConseco Would you explain your sequence with what you typed? I want to reproduce exactly the same issue.

My understanding is:

1. Save the following contents as foo.txt
2. Open Vim
3. qq
4. f'f (move to the second quote)
5. p (paste something)
6. q (stop recording macro)
7. Go to next line
8. @q

use 'foo/bar'
use 'foo/bar'

Is this correct?

[JoseConseco]

Yes see below - first I record qq macro with - f'f action. Then I try to re-run it with @q

PasteF.mp4

Cursor goes to completely wrong place - it goes bottom line at the end of video - after running the macro. In any case I switched to vim-sneak so if you are not longer working on developing this plugin then that is ok.
Also I'm not sure if that changes anything but I used P for pasting.

[W4RH4WK]

I can also confirm that there are instances where clever-f does not work with macros correctly.

It'd be fine for me if clever-f is disabled during macro recording / replay.

[jam1015]

There might be a solution in this comment thread: ggandor/lightspeed.nvim#7

[cd-a]

For reference to whoever has the same issue, this is what I use which works just fine. (Analog to the issue of lightspeed.)
It disables the plugin during both running and the execution of plugins.

" make sure to set this, otherwise it won't work
let g:clever_f_not_overwrites_standard_mappings = 1

nmap <expr> f reg_recording() .. reg_executing() == "" ? "<Plug>(clever-f-f)" : "f"
nmap <expr> F reg_recording() .. reg_executing() == "" ? "<Plug>(clever-f-F)" : "F"
nmap <expr> t reg_recording() .. reg_executing() == "" ? "<Plug>(clever-f-t)" : "t"
nmap <expr> T reg_recording() .. reg_executing() == "" ? "<Plug>(clever-f-T)" : "T"