Key remapping limitation

[romaia]

This is a somewhat similar question to #5234, but I would like to further expand it:

I would like to remap the key * to a similar behaviour that I have in vim, where the whole word under the cursor is searched.

Of course I could use miw as suggested there, but ideally, I really want to make * behave exactly as miw, But It does not seem that is possible.

I see in the source code that mi maps to select_textobject_innter:

        "m" => { "Match"
            "m" => match_brackets,
            "s" => surround_add,
            "r" => surround_replace,
            "d" => surround_delete,
            "a" => select_textobject_around,
            "i" => select_textobject_inner,
        },

So this means that the last w is handled inside of the select_textobject_inner handler.

It is possible to achive such behaviour? Is this a know limitation? Or can I somehow send that missing w to select_textobject_inner?

Another idea would be to allow creation of "macros', where I could configure "*" = "miw" somehow.

[kirawi]

#4709