On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:47 AM, S. Cowles <scow...@ckhb.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Daniel Tripp wrote:
>
> > From: Daniel Tripp <qpmirruvnnvwoca...@dt.theorem.ca>
> >
> > Say that I have set a variable like this:
> > :let desiredcolumn=42
> > And now I want to define a mapping that will go to that column on the
> current
> > line, using the <bar> command.  My problem is that I can't figure out how
> to
> > substitute the variable's value into the 'count' argument of the <bar>
> command.
> > ...
> > But instead of a constant like 42, I want to take the value from my
> > 'desiredcolumn' variable.  Something like this:
> > :map <F2> desiredcolumn<bar>
> > But of course that doesn't work.
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
>
how about

:map <F2> :exec 'norm ' . desiredcolumn . '<bar><CR>'

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