Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:05:13 +0200
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:29:05 +0200
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source)
fpr documentational purposes.
What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert
the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function
in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects --
sure my fault, but... .
How can I insert text via a script ?
Kind regards,
mcc
If your text is in a file on its own, you can use ":r" with a line
number (the number of the line after which to insert, or 0 for "before
first line", or . for "after cursor line", or $ for "after last line";
default is after cursor line) in the "range" position, i.e. just before
the r. The file name comes as an argument at the end.
Example (after line 5):
5r ~/template.txt
If your text is in a register, you can use ":put" with a line number
(again) in the range position and the register name (including ", which
must be escaped as \", for the default register; or + for the system
clipboard) after the ":put".
Example (before cursor line):
.-1put \"
See
:help :read
:help :put
Best regards,
Tony.
Hi Tony,
thank you for your reply ! :)
No, sorry...I was simply searching for a function call like
printf( "This is my text!" )
but instead of C and printing onto stdout it should be vim-script
and the text should go right at the current cursor position.
Thats all.
No registers, no script magic, not extra files. Simply put a string
after the cursor into the text.
Keep hacking!
mcc
(Untested):
Characterwise:
exe "normal aThis is my text!\<Esc>"
Linewise:
exe "normal oThis is my text!\<Esc>"
If I didn't goof, you can paste one of the above lines straight into
your script (via the clipboard).
Best regards,
Tony.
Hi Tony,
this works so far...with an unwanted sideeffekt:
Instead of
This is my text!
in my buffer I get
This is my text!<Esc>
in my text.
I get the text properly inserted. Are you sure that you used double
quotes around the string and that it ended (before the closing double
quote) with backslash, less-than, E-for-Echo, s-for-Sierra,
c-for-Charlie, greater-than ? If it didn't, then you didn't use the
lines above by copy-paste as I told you. Or else, maybe you have
'compatible' set? (check it by ":verbose set compatible?" without the
quotes but with the question mark).
When using
exe "normal aThis is my text!"\<Esc>
instead, vim says in the commandline:
E121: Undefined variable: Esc
E15 Invalid expression: "normalaThis is my text"<Esc>
.
No way out ?
Kind regards,
mcc
Try
:exe "normal aThis is my text!\e"
and make sure that you use double quotes, not single quotes.
see ":help expr-string"
Best regards,
Tony.
