Hi,
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Yegappan Lakshmanan
<yegapp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bram,
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > We could make the modifiers available in <> form, so that the user
>>> >> > command can apply them where needed. Possibly just <mods>, to pass on
>>> >> > all modifiers.
>>> >>
>>> >> The attached patch adds support for the <mods> user command escape
>>> >> sequence.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks. It would be nice if the help has an example that shows how the
>>> > modifiers are applied to only one of the commands. E.g. do something
>>> > else before the "split".
>>> >
>>>
>>> We can use the example quoted by the OP:
>>>
>>> :command! -nargs=1 Foo <mods> split <args>
>>>
>>> Now the ":tab Foo bar" command will open the file in a new tab.
>>
>> It would be clearer if there is another command before or after the
>> "split". E.g.
>> <mods> split <args> | edit Results
>> So that we see that <mods> only applies to "split", not to "edit".
>>
>
> The above command will always load the file named Results.
> How about this example?
>
> command! -nargs=+ -complete=file MyEdit for f in expand(<q-args>, 0,
> 1) | exe '<mods> split ' . f | endfor
>
> This command opens one or more files in a new split window. If the
> command modifiers like "vert" or "tab" are specified, then it opens them
> in a vertically split windows or tab pages.
>
And the below example for <q-mods>:
function! SpecialEdit(files, mods)
for f in expand(a:files, 0, 1)
exe a:mods . ' split ' . f
endfor
endfunction
command! -nargs=+ -complete=file Sedit
\ call SpecialEdit(<q-args>, <q-mods>)
- Yegappan
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