Bill McCarthy wrote:
On Tue 15-Aug-06 7:42pm -0600, Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
I haven't been following the thread, but thought the below information
is relevant.
The commands that can't be followed by a '|' are listed under ":help
:bar". There are some tricks to workaround, such as using :exec and
<NL>, but they don't work for function.
Yes, that's a very handy reference. Another way to get
there is ":h :|"
A combination of :exec and <NL> can be used:
exec "function! T()\<NL>call input('T')\<NL>endfunction"
Neat! I see \<LF> also works here, but not \<CR> (which I
used frequently).
I don't see \<LF> in the help, but IIUC you can use (within double quotes)
\n special \ escape
\<NL> newline in <> notation
\<C-J> Ctrl-J (newline)
\012 (or \12 if followed by other than [0-7]) octal
\x0A (or \xA or \xa if the next character is not [0-9A-Fa-f]) hex
\X0A (or ...) hex
\u000A (or \uA or \ua if the next...) Unicode hex
\U000A ditto
^J (an actual linefeed, entered by hitting Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-J;
it sometimes shows up as ^@)
Not sure if I cought them all, but I "think" all of these are synonymous
and mean a line-feed character. (see ":help expr-quote" and "help
key-notation")
Best regards,
Tony.
