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Feature Request: Vim dot to repeat last command

Open Semnodime opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

The first thing that made me have a happy grin on my face when using vim as text edior was when I learned about the vim dot repeat function. It was the first experience of how one can simply automate tedious, linear and repetetive tasks with a single key.

As years have passed since, I hereby kindly request to review request #1785 with the goal of implementing a way to repeat the last action taken using vimium.

This is quite powerful for things like going one tab left ( or previousTab). If you want to do that multiple times you could just go on tab left once and then easily navigate through your tabs while just pressing the dot key ..

Semnodime avatar Jan 11 '20 19:01 Semnodime

I have map <a-c> previousTab and map <a-v> nextTab, so I can switch tabs one by one by pressing and holding <a-c>.

gdh1995 avatar Jan 12 '20 05:01 gdh1995

I have map <a-c> previousTab and map <a-v> nextTab, so I can switch tabs one by one by pressing and holding <a-c>.

This is quite neat for switching tabs. But the vim . is far more powerful than just repeating a single action: it is repeating any action the user has executed lastly and thus dynamically enables a more efficent workflow.

Semnodime avatar Jan 21 '20 23:01 Semnodime

I think it's super useful feature

fertingoff avatar May 21 '22 01:05 fertingoff

So, they still "Lack of interest"?

I doubt that if they use VIM often in normal life.

miranquil avatar Jun 13 '23 10:06 miranquil

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aviexk avatar Dec 07 '23 14:12 aviexk

very interested, please implement, I will try taking a look myself

SanJJ1 avatar Dec 13 '23 03:12 SanJJ1