Question

I have defined several maps that encaspulate a selected piece of text, e.g. to convert “text” to “\texttt{text}”. This is one example for such a map:

vmap <buffer> ,t xi\texttt{<Esc>pa}<Esc>

However, this map does not work as expected when the selected text is at the end of the line.
Take for example this line:

word1 word2 word3

when I execute the normal command viw,t for every word in the line, this is the result that I get:

\texttt{word1} \texttt{word2}\texttt{word3} 

with a trailing space, i.e. the insert of the last texttt{ happened at the wrong place.

How can I change my map to work regardless of where it is executed?

Answer 1

Try using s instead of xi. That deletes the selection and goes straight into insert mode avoiding the uncertain cursor position after deleting with x.

vmap <buffer> ,t s\texttt{<Esc>pa}<Esc>