>From the Vim help on :append and :insert...
>>>
When these commands are used with :global or :vglobal then the lines
are
obtained from the text following the command. Separate lines with a
NL
escaped with a backslash:
:global/abc/insert\
one line\
another line
The final "." is not needed then.
<<<
When I paste the 3 script lines above into a buffer and execute them
(by sourcing from the buffer to be modified), I get the following
errors:
Error detected while processing C:/home/.vim/plugin/txtfmt.tut:
line 2:
E488: Trailing characters
line 3:
E492: Not an editor command: one line\
line 4:
E492: Not an editor command: another line
Note: Filetype is unix, and I've even used xxd to verify that the
backslashes are followed by a single NL, so I know the "Trailing
characters" error is not caused by an unexpected CR.
0000000: 3a67 6c6f 6261 6c2f 6162 632f 696e 7365 :global/abc/inse
0000010: 7274 5c0a 6f6e 6520 6c69 6e65 5c0a 616e rt\.one line\.an
0000020: 6f74 6865 7220 6c69 6e65 0a other line.
Is this a bug, or is there an option setting that could be preventing
the example from working as expected?
Note that what I really want is to use :append and :insert *without*
global: e.g.,
insert
one line
another line
.
...And this actually does what I want. I hesitate to use it, however,
because of the following 2 statements in the Vim help, which seem to
imply that you must use :global or :vglobal for non-interactive usage.
>>>
These two commands will keep on asking for lines, until you type
a line containing only a ".".
.
.
When these commands are used with :global or :vglobal then the
lines are obtained from the text following the command.
<<<
Although :append and :insert appear to work non-interactively as well,
I don't want to use them this way if the behavior is undefined.
Thanks,
Brett Stahlman
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