I'm getting this error occasionally when using clever-f. It seems to be related to https://github.com/w0rp/ale but I'm not really sure what the error is trying to tell me nor whether the issue is with clever-f or ale.

Error detected while processing function clever_f#find_with[31]..<SNR>223_getchar[2]..<SNR>151_NeoVimCallback[29]..<SNR>112_HandleExit[43]..ale#engine#HandleLoclist[33]..ale#engine#SetResults[26]..ale#cursor#EchoCursorWarning[1]..ale#CallWithCooldown[9]..<SNR>118_EchoImpl[20]..ale#cursor#TruncatedEcho:
line   15:
E523: Not allowed here

Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

fffffff It's just confusing. ;)

\%# is the place of cursor.

abc def \%# ghi

In this situation, fa doesn't move the cursor and clever-f doesn't start to search the character. In spite of starting to search, the target character (in above case, a is the one) is highlighted.

I have a map in one of my user-written plugin files, <Leader>fs, that manually applies a syntax highlight fix. I have let mapleader="," in my maps configuration, so the actual map is ,fs. This map keeps triggering clever-f on me, and invokes a forward-find of the character s. On immediate reuse of the map, it'll break the map and invoke a substitution action on the character under the cursor.

Additionally, if I type :help clever-f<CR>, I do indeed get the help docs for clever-f, but with all of the carriage returns highlighted. It seems as if clever-f is being triggered by any use of f/t/F/T while in normal mode, regardless of its context.

map f されているので fFtT のキーがセレクトモードで入力できません。
セレクトモードでは印字可能文字を入力すると、選択範囲が入力文字で置換されることが期待されているのでこの挙動は neosnippet などセレクトモードを利用するプラグインで問題を起こします。 See :h Select-mode-mapping

再現手順

1. 適当に文章を打つ
2. v<C-g> でセレクトモードになる
3. fFtT が入力できない

Hello !
Thanks for this smart plugin. Would there be a simple way to replace "t" by "j" because I use a different keyboardmap ? (bépo which is the french Dvorak sort of. j is already remapped as t in my vimrc and t to j but the plugin overwrite this remapping that is done with nnoremap).
Thanks and have a good day !

How to reproduce

dfa → .

At first, the area which begins at cursor and ends at a would be deleted. And then, the same action is executed by ..
However, the second action generates below garbage in command line:

:call clever_f#find('f', 60)

I have the following map in my config:
nmap <Esc> <Plug>(clever-f-reset)

Moving the cursor resets the highlights, but pressing <Esc> doesn't. However, it does reset the searching character.

Because clever-f is capable of traversing lines, I think that it would be quite helpful if we could configure it to highlight further out so we know where we will be landing. Of course, highlighting all of the matching chars in the entire buffer is probably too extreme, but somebody might want to do that as well!

Mainly I just want to be able to at least see the next line having the match. So, if i fZ and there is a Z 5 lines further down in the buffer, i'd like that to get highlighted as well as the Z's on the current line. No need to highlight more than the next match away from the current line.

Not an issue - just wanted to say thank you! This plugin rocks.

Say you have the following line 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a, and you wish to delete all of the a in this line, to do this you record the following macro: qqfax which leaves you with the following line after recording: 1 2a 3a 4a 5a. from there, to delete the rest of the a you would simply call the macro by doing 4@q.

Expected Behaviour

to get a line like this: 1 2 3 4 5

Actual Behaviour

1 2axfaxfaxfax 3a 4a 5a

steps to reproduce

1. qq start macro
2. fax (find next a and delete it with the x key)
3. q
4. 4@q

vim

neovim 0.5.0 nightly (bare config)

g:clever_f_mark_char_color allows me to set highlight group of target characters, but I just want to underline the target characters while keeping the rest of its original highlight setting.
Is this possible?

I most cases when i hit "f;" (search and go to any sign) i get too many variants. As a result - i've tried it a couple of times and just do not use since.

Could you please add an option like "clever_f_chars_any_signs list" with possibility to limit the list?
".", ",", "_", " ' " are easy to jump by their original name (e.g. "f.")

Description

Disapper cursor color by executing clerver-f

https://vim-jp.slack.com/archives/C03C4RC9F/p1562727930036200

Reproduce process

1. Hit f
2. Hit key to jump char

Environment

• OS : Windows 10
• vim: kaoriya-gvim
• version: 8.1.1461

Minimum setting

if &compatible
  set nocompatible               " Be iMproved
endif

if empty(glob('c:/nekowasabi/tools/vim/vim81/autoload/plug.vim'))
  silent !curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
        \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
  autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall | source $MYVIMRC
endif

call plug#begin('c:/nekowasabi/tools/vim/vim81/plugged')
Plug 'rhysd/clever-f.vim'
nmap f <Plug>(clever-f-f)
xmap f <Plug>(clever-f-f)
omap f <Plug>(clever-f-f)
nmap F <Plug>(clever-f-F)
xmap F <Plug>(clever-f-F)
omap F <Plug>(clever-f-F)

Many vimers might have got used to type ; for repeating after forward or toward. So It might be reasonable to map ; with same behaviour as well?

Any thoughts?

Say you have the following line a,, b,, and you wish to delete the extra , after each letter, to do this you record the following macro: qqf,fx which leaves you with the following line after recording: a, b,, then you would run the macro again with @q

Expected Behaviour

to get a line like this: a, b,

Actual Behaviour

a,b,,

steps to reproduce

1. qq start macro
2. f,fx (find a comma, then go to the next comma and press x to delete the character)
3. q to stop the macro
4. @q to run the macro

vim

neovim 0.5.0 nightly (bare config)

Great plugin! Is it possible to make it case insensitive?

Open question: at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17280247/case-insensitive-f-key-in-vim

I has a good idea. When i type f{char},addition to highlighting character, also can show numbers around characters(the number of repetitions of that character). Then i can type {count}f to jump.

Thanks for sharing this awesome plugin! How does g:clever_f_mark_char_color work? I found no example by yet.

For example, when I do: g:clever_f_mark_char_color="Statement"

And in my colorscheme the Statement is defined as:

hi Statement guifg=#8a3824 guibg=NONE guisp=NONE gui=bold

But I see no another colors of the matching character when I press f{insert character} ?

When after using clever-f, say 'fj' and typing something in insert mode it is not possible to repeat the same search again.
Without clever f I would do 'fjiTYPING;.' to jump again and repeat typing again. But in case of clever-f ';' doesn't work anymore and 'f' itself asks for a character.

Is it possible to fix ';' and '.' keys while they are needed sometimes?

Thanks.

Currently mark_direct only highlights the current line.
I think that it could be better if it highlighted across multiple lines

or I'm too dumb to get it right ... ^^

I tried as normal with:

nm <Leader>f          <Plug>(clever-f-reset)

with , as leader. When I do this f doesn't work anymore. Ther cursor jumps to the status line when I press f and return to previous position when I press another key to search for that character. But it doesn't search any more :(

Hi, thanks for a great plugin. I have a question. Is there a way to exit f-repeating mode?
Now, to make another search instead of repeating, I'm pressing some random key.
Is it possible to make some mapping like map <esc> call f-repeating-mode-exit().
Thanks in advance

I have this mapping to clear/reset the Vim's search results highlights (i.e. when using /):

nnoremap <Esc> :noh<CR>

So, I'm thinking if it's possible to use the <Esc> key also to reset the clever-f highlights instead of using the cursor keys?

Highlight won't be cleared until the cursor moves.

I think it's better UX than using g:clever_f_highlight_timeout_ms since sometimes you're not done yet, but the highlight will be auto-cleared. Clearing it on-demand offers more timing control. I think <Esc> is also a natural choice since it's kinda escaping the clever-f (find) mode.

BTW, thanks a lot for this useful/practical plugin! :)

This is a very useful plug-in, but auto reuse of previous patter char requires reset it or wait it to timeout which is a little undeterministic, Could I make these mapping like the standard behavior?

In doc/clever-f.txt, it says

|F| after |f|{char} and |F|{char} is also available to undo a jump.

This is a little unclear because doing something like fpFF starting at "start here"

first p second p start here third p

Will take you back to the first p rather than one of the other ones.

If you jump to a character x, using fx, then both f and t will jump to the next occurrence of x, but t does the same (i.e. it just repeats the initial fx jump).

IMHO, f should do a further jump in a f-ish way, and t in a t-ish way, independently of whether the initial jump was fx or tx. For instance, fxt should jump to before the second occurrence of x. Of course, likewise for any permutation of f, F, t, T.

How to unmap T key in init.vim

to reproduce:

1. set selection=exclusive

2. assume we have these text (| means cursor position)

    |abcdef
   

3. v to enter visual mode

4. press fc

   • with clever-f, the result would be (ab selected)

       ab|cdef
     

   • without clever-f, the right result should be (abc selected)

       abc|def
     

Looks like plugin resets some cursor attributes after ct/cf combinations, before the change my cursor was horizontal, but after ct command it became a block:

Tried to disable plugin in .vimrc and it helped, so I'm sure problem related to the plugin. If there's some hotfix, that I can paste in my .vimrc I would appreciate it.

I have the following to change my cursor from a block into an underline:

set guicursor=a:hor20-Cursor

Whenever I run df to delete a range, my cursor is changed back to a block.

I have to source my config to have it as an underscore again.

This behaviour seems to happen only with Neovim and not Vim itself.

When I press f< or F< etc - less-than sign nor highlighted nor searched, am I one who has such experience?

Neovim, archlinux

Given this line of Ruby (_ == cursor):

    expect(Lib::_Version.to_s).to be_a String

In normal mode, if I do f., it repeats my previous action (in this case, text substitution) instead of jumping to the . character.

Have been using clever-f for a really long time. Recently, I encounter an error that is shown below

I am using fidget.nvim to show the progress of LSP. I am not sure whether this issue is caused by clever-f or fidget.nvim. It seems that this issue is related to neovim/neovim#16278, i.e., the <expr> + getchar() thing.

This issue happens during the initialization of the LSP servers. After the initialization, no issues.

Nvim version: NVIM v0.7.0-dev+1429-g8bdcd832a

Thank you very much.

Clever-f jumps to wrong characters, If clever-f set like below.
let g:clever_f_ignore_case = 1
let g:clever_f_use_migemo = 1
let g:clever_f_across_no_line = 0

Then, typing "fs" jumps to not only "s" but also "o"

The cursor, after hitting f and waiting for a character, jumps for a short time to the end of the command line and returns. Can this be toggled off ?

I just stumbled acros deris/vim-shot-f plugin which is a really nice feature for the f,F,t,T keys. But sadly it does not work with clever-f which I like even more :)

Is there a chance to combine them or implement something similar in clever-f? I might be able to do the implementation if I get some pointers.

when using a macro with lazyredraw on, the screen should not redraw, but when using f, F, t and T, the screen will always redraw.

I tested this with a bare neovim config

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!

Is it possible to add an option to make clever-f to navigate only certain characters? Like, the beginning and end of words or camelCased words, and the non-alpha characters?

issueではないのですが質問があり、投票させていただきました。

clever-fについてf F t T の4種類の文字にて検索を行うことができますよね。
これに対してf, F のみを動作させて　t T を動作させないようにしたいと考えました。

clever-f.vim / plugin / clever-f.vimの

noremap (clever-f-t) clever_f#find_with('t')
noremap (clever-f-T) clever_f#find_with('T')

をコメントアウトさせることで出来るのかと思いましたが違いました。
どのようにいじればよろしいのでしょうか。
お忙しいとは思いますがよろしくお願いします。

Is it possible to add possibility to jump to high register symbol by its low register key?

Examples:
f2 -> highlights both 2 and @ (and jumps to nearest, of course)
f8 -> * and 8
(excluding regular letters)

Thank you.

Could there be something like g:clever_f_fix_key_direction, but for <Plug>(clever-f-repeat-forward) and <Plug>(clever-f-repeat-backward)? I'm finding myself needing this feature.

Is there a quick option to make clever-f forget about the character to search not only on movement, but also on Esc.
After all, 'f' is not so consistent when:

input    fa      x fa
move   ---->_----->_
text   1    abc   da

This is as expected (cursor stays still), but:

input    fa    d0 fa
move   ---->_
move   _<
text   1    abc   da

In this case cursor moves and clever-f won't find next match anymore.

Would be nice if there were an option not to rely on previous_pos, and just reset clever-f on Esc (or C-f?).

I have tried, but my VimL skills are poor.

Just found this addon and I really like it!

One thing that struck me though is that if you set a timeout the highlights remain even after it's triggered. I think it would make sense to clear them once you no longer have the option to jump to them without starting a new search.

t/T doesn't work in visual mode
reason: s:first_move is never reset to 0 when in visual mode
see autoload/clever_f.vim line 181

should be easy to fix :)

After I press "fs" to jump to 's' character i got this error:

Error detected while processing function clever_f#find_with:
line   40:
E712: Argument of map() must be a List or Dictionary

Removing this setting making it works again:
let g:clever_f_repeat_last_char_inputs='<Tab>'

My vim version is:

NVIM v0.4.3
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5
Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -O2 -DNDEBUG -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=always -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNUP

I use this function to keep a live wordcount in the statusline: https://gist.github.com/cormacrelf/d0bee254f5630b0e93c3

When I try to use Clever-f, I get an error

Error detected while processing function clever_f#find_with[12]..WordCount:
E523: Not allowed here

Is there an easy way to resolve the conflict?

First of all, I discovered this plugin today and am really enjoying it so far so thanks!

After installing the plugin I was getting some weird cursor issues and managed to find this related issue, which fixed my problem, but I wanted to open an issue here to point to the solution to help others in the future if they run into the same problem.

I was using all default params for clever-f with Shougo/deoplete.nvim as my autocompleter (not sure if it matters)

Here's a short video that shows the problem. Before my cursor is a block, then goes into underline mode when i enter Insert mode. After I take the autocompletion my cursor is permanently stuck in underline mode (both when in Normal mode and Insert mode).

Just add the following to your vimrc
let g:clever_f_hide_cursor_on_cmdline = 0
neovim/neovim#6913
credit to @zhou13