[FR] Create a config to turn on autoreplacement of magrittr pipe with native pipe

[jarodmeng]

This is a feature request.

I'm in the process of migrating all my pipe usage from the magrittr %>% pipe to the R native |> pipe. But old habits truly die hard and I find my self mixing the two pipes all the time in my script. As a result, I have to do global replacement often. I'm wondering if it's possible to enable some kind of auto-replacement of %>% to |> in real time when typing. There can be a setting which turns on and off this behavior.

Congrats on the new launch and thanks for all the hard work over many years!

[PMassicotte]

I am not sure to understand. Do you mean that |> would be inserted even if you type %>%?

[jarodmeng]

I am not sure to understand. Do you mean that |> would be inserted even if you type %>%?

That's right. Much like when _ is typed, it's replaced with <- if R_assign is turned on.

[jalvesaq]

You may put this in your init.lua:

vim.cmd.iabbrev('%>', '|>')

or, even better, to unlearn the old habit:

vim.cmd.iabbrev('%>', 'TRY_AGAIN')

You can also create an autocmd to automatically replace "%<%" with "<|" when the buffer is saved.

[jarodmeng]

I tried to set up the abbreviation, but it doesn't work. It may have something to do with the characters allowed in abbreviation.

I ended up doing this in 2 steps.

1. I used grep --include={*.R,*.r,*.qmd,*.rmd} -rli '%>%' * | xargs -i@ sed -i 's/%>%/|>/g' @ to replace all existing %>% with |> in my folder.
2. I included autocmd BufWritePre *.R,*.r,*.qmd,*.rmd,*.Qmd,*.Rmd :%s/%>%/|>/ge | write in my setup to automatically replace %>% with |> in R files when saving.

It doesn't solve the real-time replacement when typing, but at least help make sure that my R files now always have |> instead of %>%.

[PMassicotte]

I think it was addressed in #116