Re: Need help with setting and keeping insertmode / append in a .vim script [sj]

On 21/01/10 00:19, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-01-20, smu johnson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:57 PM, smu johnson<smujohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Gary Johnson<garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> :help :startinsert
>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> If i do startinsert! in the if statement... and then try to write the
>> following if statement, i'm quite sure how to "write" text without it
>> thinking that my if statement itself is the text I want to write.
>>
>> if a:pos == "comment_and_write"
>> startappend!
>> else
>> startinsert!
>> endif
>>
>> if (condition)
>> the big brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
>> stopinsert
>> endif
>>
>> <--- confused :(
>
> Me, too.
>
>> Perhaps it cannot be done.
>>
>> NOTE: These commands cannot be used with |:global| or |:vglobal|.
>> ":append" and ":insert" don't work properly in between ":if" and
>> ":endif", ":for" and ":endfor", ":while" and ":endwhile".
>>
>> *sad face*
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. You've given
> examples of attempted solutions that don't work, but it's not clear
> to me what you're trying to get vim to do. It may be that it can be
> done, just not the way you're approaching it.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
>
>

If it's just to insert a given piece or text above or below the current
line, you could for instance write that text into a register (with
either a "\n" in a double-quoted string, or a null, where a line break
is desired)...

let @@ = "Line 1\n---second line---\nline three\nLAST LINE"

(see :help :let-@) ...and then, maybe within or after an if-clause, do
either

put
or
.-1put

or even compute the line number (of the line after which to insert, or
zero for "before first line"), then

exe lineno 'put'

with an optional register-letter (default: the "unnamed" register of
course) after the :put (see :help :put). (In theory this could be
accomplished in one step by means of the expression register, but I
haven't succeeded to get line breaks into the expression register.)

Best regards,
Tony.
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