cecutil.txt	DrChip's Utilities				Jul 01, 2016

Author:  Charles E. Campbell  <NcampObell@SdrPchip.AorgM-NOSPAM>
	  (remove NOSPAM from Campbell's email first)
Copyright: (c) 2004-2006 by Charles E. Campbell		cecutil-copyright
           The VIM LICENSE applies to cecutil.vim and cecutil.txt
           (see copyright) except use "cecutil" instead of "Vim"
	   No warranty, express or implied.  Use At-Your-Own-Risk.

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1. Contents					cecutil cecutil-contents

	1. Contents.................: cecutil-contents
	2. Positioning..............: cecutil-posn
	3. Marks....................: cecutil-marks
	4. Maps.....................: cecutil-maps
	5. History..................: cecutil-history

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2. Positioning				cecutil-posn	cecutil-position

    let winposn= SaveWinPosn()				cecutil-savewinposn

	This operation will save window position in winposn variable and
	on a (buffer local) b:winposn{} stack.

    call SaveWinPosn()

	This function will save window position in b:winposn{b:iwinposn}

    let winposn= SaveWinPosn(0)

	This operation will _only_ save the window position in winposn variable.
	Ie. the window position will not appear on the b:winposn{} stack.  You
	will then need to use RestoreWinPosn(winposn) to restore to this window
	position.

    call RestoreWinPosn()				cecutil-restorewinposn

	This function call will use the local buffer b:winposn{} stack to
	restore the last window position saved therein.  It will also
	pop the stack.

    call RestoreWinPosn(winposn)

	This function call will use the winposn variable and restore
	the window position accordingly.  It will also search the
	stack and remove any similar entry from the stack.

			cecutil-map cecutil-cmd cecutil-swp cecutil-rwp
    \swp : save current window position (uses the b:winposn{} stack)
    :SWP   like \swp, but provided as a command

    \rwp : restore window position      (uses the b:winposn{} stack)
    :RWP   like \rwp, but provided as a command

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3. Marks						cecutil-marks

    call SaveMark(markname)				cecutil-savemark
    let savemark= SaveMark(markname)
    SM markname

		ex. call SaveMark("a")
		let savemarkb= SaveMark("b")
		:SM a

	This function saves a string in the global variable
		g:savemark_{markname}
	which contains sufficient information to completely restore the
	position of a mark.  It also returns that string.

   call RestoreMark(markname)				cecutil-restoremark
   call RestoreMark(savemark)

	This function either takes a single-character string (ex. "a") and uses
	g:savemark_{markname} to restore the mark position or assumes that
	the string passed to it is a SaveMark() string (and uses it to restore
	the mark).

		ex. call RestoreMark("a")
		    call RestoreMark(savemarkb)
		    :RM a


   call DestroyMark(markname)				cecutil-destroymark

	The DestroyMark() function completely removes a mark.  It does this
	by saving the window position, copying line one, putting the
	to-be-destroyed mark on that new line, deleting the new line, and
	then restoring the window position.  The windows' modified status
	is preserved.

		ex. call DestroyMark("a")
		    :DM a


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4.Maps							cecutil-maps
							cecutil-saveusermaps
    call SaveUserMaps(mapmode,maplead,mapchx,suffix)

	This function sets up a script-variable (ie. a variable that can
	generally be accessed only from within cecutil's own functions; see
	s:var) called s:restoremap_SUFFIX, where the suffix is specified by
	the "suffix" argument.

	The selected user's maps are saved by appending a restoration command
	to this variable; the RestoreUserMaps() (cecutil-restoreusermaps)
	function uses the contents of this variable to restore user maps.

		mapmode	- (see maparg()for additional information)
			  leading "u": SaveUserMaps() will unmap any existing
			               map matches after saving them
			  leading "b": the map(s) have a <buffer> qualifier
			  ""         : normal, visual, and operator-pending
			  "n"        : normal mode maps
			  "o"        : operator pending maps
			  "i"        : insert mode maps
			  "c"        : command line maps
			  "l"        : language map (see language-mapping)
			    ex. "un"  = Normal + unmapping
			    ex. "bn"  = Normal + <buffer>
			    ex. "bun" = Normal + <buffer> + unmapping
			    ex. "ubn" = Normal + <buffer> + unmapping
		maplead - The single letter maps being saved are assumed to have
			  the form
				maplead . each_character_in_string
			  ex. maplead="\" and mapchx="abc" saves mappings for
			    \a, \b, and \c
			  Of course, if maplead is "", then for mapchx="abc",
			  mappings for just a, b, and c are saved.
		mapchx	- This argument specifies which mapped keys to save.
			- "<something>" handled as a single map item.
			  ex. "<left>"
       		- "string" a string of single letters which are actually
			  multiple two-letter maps (ie. maplead + character).
			- :something  handled as a single map item, w/o the ":"
			  ex.  mapchx= ":abc"
			  will save the user mapping for "abc"
		suffix  - a string unique to your plugin
			  ex.  suffix= "DrawIt"
			  This suffix is appended to the internal save
			  variable name.

	Some examples follow:

		call SaveUserMaps("n","","webWEBjklh$0%;,nN","HiMtchBrkt")
		mapmode is "n" : normal maps are to be saved
		maplead is ""  : no mapleader is used
		mapchx         : normal mode maps for w, e, b, W, E, B, j,
		                 k, l, etc (if any) are all saved
		suffix         : saving is done using the variable
		                 s:restoremaps_HiMtchBrkt

		call SaveUserMaps("n",'\',"webWEBjklh$0%;,nN","HiMtchBrkt")
		This example is just like the previous one, except that
		maplead is '\' : so normal mode maps for \w, \e, \b, ...
		                 will be saved.

		call SaveUserMaps("n","","<up>","DrawIt")
		The normal mode map (if any) for the <up> key is saved in
		the variable s:restoremaps_DrawIt

		call SaveUserMaps("n","",":F(","HiMtchBrkt")
		The normal mode map for
			F(
		(if any) is saved in the variable s:restoremaps_HiMtchBrkt

    call RestoreUserMaps(suffix)

    	The usermaps saved by SaveUserMaps() with the given suffix will be
	restored (ie. s:restoremaps_{suffix}).  Example:

		call RestoreUserMaps("HiMtchBrkt")
		will restore all user maps redefined for the HiMtchBrkt plugin


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5. History						cecutil-history {{{1

	v18 Aug 27, 2008 : * after norm! 0 (ie. cursor at left hand side),
			     a wincol() normally returns 1.  However, with
			     signs enabled, wincol() returned 3, and the
			     result was that RestoreWinPosn() was beeping
			     (near the "seems to be something odd" comment)
	    Aug 20, 2009   * changed some keep&restore options to use local
			     options rather than global ones.
			   * adjust saved window column for being past the
			     end-of-line (which can happen with 'virtualedit')
			   * with wrap enabled, lines longer than the
	                     window width (which take several screen lines)
			     caused SaveWinPosn() to not restore the window
			     line correctly.
			   * fixed some map save and restore issues with
			     handling <buffer> maps
	    Apr 05, 2010   * (Greg Klein) keepjumps used more often to prevent
			     adding unwanted lines to the jump table (jumps)
			   * (Greg Klein) moved screenline adjusting to a
			     separate function (s:WinLineRestore) as having a
			     while loop embedded in a string for execution,
			     even with :keepjumps, added lines to the jump
			     table
			   * (Greg Klein) fixed s:WinLineRestore() so that it
			     wouldn't hang on shorter than a screen text but
			     having longer than screenwidth lines.
	    Jul 01, 2016   * Changed SaveWinPosn() and RestoreWinPosn() to use
			     winsaveview() and winrestview()
	v17 Sep 04, 2007 : * new function, QArgSplitter(), included
	v16 Oct 30, 2006 : * com -> com! so AsNeeded is happier
	    Feb 12, 2007   * fixed a bug where :somemap (a map of "somemap")
			     did not use the optional mapleader (so it'd be
			     a map of "\somemap", if "\" is the mapleader).
			     (problem pointed out by Michael Zhang)
	v15 Jan 25, 2006 : * bypass for report option for DestroyMark() included
	                   * SaveWinPosn() and RestoreWinPosn() now handle an
			     empty buffer
			   * b:(varname) now use b:cecutil_(varname)
			   * map restoration improved
	v14 Jan 23, 2006 : * bypasses for si, so, and siso options included
	    Jan 25, 2006   * SaveUserMaps' mapmode argument, heretofore just
	                     a single letter (see maparg()), now accepts a
			     leading "u".  If present, SaveUserMaps() will
			     do an unmap.
	v13 Jan 12, 2006 : * SaveUserMaps() was saving user maps but then also
	                     unmap'ing them.  HiMtchBrkt needed to append a
	                     function call to maps, not overwrite them.  So
	                     the new SaveUserMaps() just saves user maps,
	                     leaving their definitions in place.
	   Jan 18, 2006    * keepjumps used to avoid jumplist changes when
	                     using SaveWinPosn() and RestoreWinPosn()
	v12 Dec 29, 2005 : * bugfix (affected Mines.vim)
	v11 Dec 29, 2005 : * two new functions (SaveUserMaps() and
	                     RestoreUserMaps() )
	v10 Nov 22, 2005 : * SaveWinPosn bugfix
	v9  Jun 02, 2005 : * <q-args> produces a "" argument when there are
	                     no arguments, which caused difficulties.  Fixed.
	v8  Apr 22, 2005 : * <q-args> used to handle marknames with commands
	                     Thus, :DM a  will delete mark a
	v7  Mar 10, 2005 : * removed zO from saved window position; caused
	                     problems with ftplugin/currfunc.vim
	                   * doing a SWP and RWP on an empty buffer produced
	                     "empty buffer" messages; now these are ignored
	    Apr 13, 2005   * command (SWP RWP MP SP etc) now have -bar so
	                     that the "|" can be used to chain such commands
	v6  Feb 17, 2005 : * improved SaveMark() and RestoreMark()
	v5  Jan 18, 2005 : * s:loaded_winposn changed to g:loaded_cecutil
	v4  Oct 25, 2004 : * changed com! to com so that error messages will
	                     be given when there's a command-name conflict
	v3  May 19, 2004 : * bugfix: the sequence \swp\rwp wasn't working right
	                   * bugfix: \swp...\rwp was echoing the current
	                     line when the \rwp should've been silent
	                   * improved Dfunc/Decho/Dret debugging


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