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I've long used this very useful shortcut in vim:
nmap <space> i <esc>r
this means that if I press spacef, for example, it will insert a single character f at the given position.
unfortunately, however, this is not atomic, ie, if I press spacef and then navigate somewhere else, then press ., I get the equivalent of rf, not spacef.
all this makes sense, but here's the question: is there a way of making this atomic, so that . will repeat the 'insert character' operation, and so that undo etc all treat it as one operation, too?
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When you move your cursor to a particular position in a file, Vim remembers this and lets you move around between where you are where you were. CTRL-O goes to the older position, and CTRL-I or tab goes to the newer one.
If you press "F", Vim will move the cursor backwards instead of forward. Given the previous sentence, if pressed "Fq", and the cursor was at the end of the line, it would move to the "q" in "quick".
Awesome! Michael's answer pointed me to the plugin I needed to finish my plugin, which can now do what you want - I had been trying to figure out how to do this for ages!
1) Install Tim Pope's plugin
2) Install my plugin
3) Add a mapping to your .vimrc:
nnoremap <space> :<C-U>call InsertChar#insert(v:count1)<CR>
Does this work for you?
noremap <silent> <space> :exe "normal i".nr2char(getchar())<CR>
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