Re: Displaying vim error messages

On 06/02/13 03:20, Daniel P. Wright wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to display one of vim's in-built error messages from a
> script. For example, "E347: No more file "filename" found in path". I
> could just use :echoerr, but then the string wouldn't be localised if
> people are using translated versions of vim, and if the text of E347
> were ever to change I'd have to update my plugin if I wanted to match
> it.
>
> I've looked through the documentation but most of what I could find
> seemed just to be summaries of existing error messages rather than ways
> of displaying them or extracting their text. Is there any way to print
> an error based on its message ID (E347 in this case)?
>
> Any pointers greatly appreciated,
>
> Dani.
>

No. You can make Vim produce the message if you let the error happen and
don't catch it. Otherwise, Vim error messages are such that you can't
really trigger them. As you noticed, you can use :echoerr but it won't
be localized.

See:
:help rethrow
:help try-echoerr


Best regards,
Tony.
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Despising machines to a man,
The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
And ride out by night
In a sheeting of white
To lynch all the robots they can.
-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson

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