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

On 22/03/10 10:42, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> 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.

P.S. The following works:

exe lineno 'put =\"Line 1\n---second line---\nline three\nLAST LINE\"'

(where the variable named lineno contains the desired line number, of
course). Notice the single and double quotes, the escaped quotes, and
the single backslashes for \n.

Best regards,
Tony.
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