Re: How to append lines when iterating over a range.

On 2013-08-08 10:42, Eric Siegel wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Hopefully this doesn't get sent twice, but it seems that my last
> response was lost in the ether.
>
> I don't think that those functions help. Here is a simplified
> version of my problem.
>
> Say we want to convert these lines:
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
>
> Into this:
>
> line1
> some
> appended
> lines
> line2
> some
> appended
> lines
> line3
> some
> appended
> lines
>
> My first attempt at the function looks like this:
>
> function! Example()
> call append(line('.'), ["some", "appended", "lines"])
> endfunction
>
> The problem is that this won't work for ranges.
>
> If you try this command:
>
> 1,3call Example()
>
> You get this output:
>
> line1
> some
> some
> some
> appended
> lines
> appended
> lines
> appended
> lines
> line2
> line3

Which can take advantage of the aforementioned line-marking that :g
does by then doing

:1,3g/^/call Example()

-tim



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