Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Re: My function needs to be sourced twice. Why?

Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a function in vimscript that would toggle a value
> either to its default value, or to an other value. Here is what I wrote.
>
> " Toggles value to default or other
> function! ToggleValue(value, default, other)
> exec 'let evalvalue = '.a:value
> if evalvalue == a:default
> exec 'let '.a:value.' = '.a:other
> else
> exec 'let '.a:value.' = '.a:default
> endif
> exec 'let '.a:value
> endfunction
>
> This seems to work, e.g.
> :let g:foo = 0
> :call ToggleValue("g:foo", 0, 1) "prints g:foo #0
> :call ToggleValue("g:foo", 0, 1) "prints g:foo #1
> :call ToggleValue("g:foo", 0, 1) "prints g:foo #0
>
> However, I don't understand why, to get it working, I need to source
> my vimrc twice.
>
> Can someone give me a hint?
Hmm -- it seemed to work fine for me with but a single sourcing.
However, the results I got were

g:foo #1
g:foo #0
g:foo #1

which seems correct to me (a quiet initialize g:foo to zero, toggle to
1, toggle to 0, toggle to 1).

Regards,
Chip Campbell


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