Script-Moving cursor, Other Commands

[BH]

I am attempting to load a script. Commands using :vsp,:e,:b1 all work
fine but can't execute any of the following.

ctrl-w r 'switch windows
[[ 'top of page
Enter 'Simulate user pressing enter
dd 'delete line
qa 'create macro
q 'stop macro
.
.
.
and so forth

i get E492: Not an editor command

thanks

[Gary Johnson]

The commands in script files must be ex commands. The commands you've
shown are normal-mode commands. See

:help vim-modes

for a description of the various modes. You can use the :normal
command,

:help :normal

to execute normal-mode commands in a script. Some of the commands you
are using also have ex-mode equivalents, such as :wincmd for Ctrl-W
commands and :.d for deleting the current line.

Alternatively, you can source a file of normal-mode commands using the
:source! command. Note the exclamation point. See

:help :source

but I don't have any experience doing that.

--
Gary Johnson

[BH]

On Dec 11, 10:03 pm, Gary Johnson <garyj...@eskimo.com> wrote:

thanks for the quick reply.. I'm still having 2 issues:

from my script:

1)i am trying to insert the contents of a buffer and search the file.

ie :/"\<CTRL-R>"c where c is the name of the buffer.

I get a E486 Patter not found..

2) I am having a problem also calling a macro from the script file.

thanks

[Gary Johnson]

BH <bhel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for the quick reply.. I'm still having 2 issues:
>
> from my script:
>
> 1)i am trying to insert the contents of a buffer and search the file.
>
> ie :/"\<CTRL-R>"c where c is the name of the buffer.
>
> I get a E486 Patter not found..

I know that "buffer" is the generic term for such a thing, but Vim uses
"buffer" to refer to the thing that holds the contents of a file and
which you edit and uses "register" to refer to a thing you yank text
into. So in the case above, c is the name of a register, not a buffer,
and strictly speaking, the thing you're searching is a buffer, not a
file. Not a big deal, but knowing the terms Vim uses makes it easier to
find information in the :help system.

It can be a little tricky to expand commands such as those beginning
with Ctrl-R in other commands. The :execute command is usually used to
for this. For example, you could expand Ctrl-R " in your search command
like this:

execute "normal /\<C-R>\"\<CR>"

or interpolate the value of the " register like this:

execute "normal /" . eval('@"') . "\<CR>"

You _could_ insert Ctrl-R and Return literally into the normal command
by preceding each by Ctrl-V, typed like this,

normal /^V^R"^V^M

where ^V, ^R and ^M mean the single characters Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R and
Ctrl-M, respectively, but embedding control characters into your scripts
can make them difficult to maintain and to share with others. It's one
of those things that's good to know but generally not a good idea to
use.

You could also use the search() function instead, like this:

call search(@")

One feature of using the search() function is that it does not affect
the value of the search register.

> 2) I am having a problem also calling a macro from the script file.

If you record a macro into the q register, for example, you can play it
back like this:

normal @q

Or by "macro" did you mean something else?

--
Gary Johnson