Re: Possible bug affecting append/insert commands within :global

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> 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.
> <<<

A possible interpretation has occurred to me... Notwithstanding the
"...keep on asking for lines..." wording in the first statement, Vim
doesn't really care whether the lines are being typed at the command
line or being read from a file. The second statement merely indicates
that the lines can't be supplied interactively when :global is used. In
light of the first statement, I interpreted the second statement to mean...
"You must use :global if you want the text to be supplied
non-interactively."

...The intent, however, may simply have been...
"You must supply text non-interactively if you're using :global."

If so, I would submit that the wording of the first statement
contributed to my misunderstanding: in particular, it seems to suggest
the following division:
without :global ==> interactive
with :global ==> non-interactive

Brett Stahlman

>
> 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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