On Tue, Nov 18, 2014, at 17:59, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > I've written up patches to make it so that I, a, A, s, ce, etc can be > repeated properly with . -- not sure if I'm doing this the Right Way, > but > it seems to work in my tests. Feedback appreciated. Patches attached.
Haven't looked at your patch, but vim stores the inserted keystrokes (not text - it'll happily let you repeat an inserted sequence of backspaces that deleted over the beginning of the insertion region, arrows that moved the cursor, etc) in a read-only register named with the period character. Pasting it with ^R. or ^A in insert-mode plays back the keystrokes and adds them to the text which will be in the register the next time you leave insert mode. I don't know offhand if this register is used for the . command or not.
