How to leave insert mode with a vimscript command

[epanda]

Hi,

I would like to execute either CTRL-L or i_CTRL-L into a vimscript in
order to leave insert mode.
How can I do ?

Thank you

[Ben Schmidt]

Try

:stopinsert

Ben.

[epanda]

stopinsert does not leave insertmode under vimscript

Note that I do
argdo! w!
argdo! bd!

before
stopinsert

[Ben Fritz]

On Feb 23, 2:45 am, epanda <callingel...@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> stopinsert does not leave insertmode under vimscript
>

Yes, it does. That's the only thing it ever does. That's the command's
entire purpose. What do you see, instead? What *exactly* are you
trying to accomplish?

> Note that I do
> argdo! w!
> argdo! bd!
>
> before
> stopinsert

Commands you execute before :stopinsert are irrelevant. :stopinsert
stops insert mode from within a script, as soon as possible.