Re: difference command line and menu?

On Oct 28, 6:26 am, John Little <john.b.lit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 7:11 am, rameo <rai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > John exactly the same command as in the vimrc file.
>
> > :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR>
>
> We're at cross purposes here.  menu.vim is run a part of gui
> initialization, before the file being edited is loaded. If I put
> exactly
>
>  :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR>
>
> in menu.vim, I get an error dialogue box saying:
>
> Error detected while processing /home/john/.vim/menu.vim:
> line   18:
> E20: Mark not set
>
> Indeed, the same applies to the .vimrc.
> I assumed that you'd put in menu.vim something to get a menu entry
> that would do the search and replace, something like (split over two
> lines because google groups will split it anyway):
>
> anoremenu 20.305 &Edit.Capitalize\ &List
>     \ :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR>
>
> Now, doing this, I found that the backslash before the | had to be
> doubled. However, for a mapping in the vimrc file, the same applies:
>
> map <F4> :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR>
>
> This shows there is indeed a difference between the menu entry and the
> mapping, to do with the range given with the '< and '> marks; using
> the mapping as above fails if the visual selection is still displayed,
> because the marks are entered twice.  You'd need another mapping for
> visual mode:
>
> vmap <F4> :s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR>
>
> However, I'm not sure I understand what you've done, or are trying to
> do. Is the problem with the | the incompatibility you're referring
> to?  That occurs because | is used to have multiple commands on the
> command line, see :help map_bar, and there's various vi-compatible
> kludges.
>
> Regards, John

Yes that it!
The backslash before the "I" had to be doubled.
I resolved also another problem adding an extra backslash.

Thanks John and Ben for your help :)

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