Re: z doesn't work in a function

On Aug 10, 7:58 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 7:09 am, sinbad <sinbad.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi,
>
> > the following statement is not working inside a vim function.
> > any clue ?
>
> > silent normal! z<CR>
>
> Because you're feeding in 4 characters, '<', 'C', 'R', '>' instead of
> the intent, which is doubtless to feed in an actual <CR> character.
> There are at least two ways to do this in a normal command:
>
> 1. silent exec "normal! z\<CR>"
> 2. silent normal! z^M (where the ^M is not the two characters, but
> rather the result of typing CTRL-V followed by an actual <CR> to
> insert the byte literally)
>
> The first is probably slightly cleaner.
>
> The special <Key> syntax pretty much only works in mappings. For use
> in strings, it must be escaped as shown (and in double-quotes, not
> single-quotes, which will take the '\' literally as well).

thanks Thinca and Ben, worked just perfect.

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