Re: Execute a command from cursor position to the end of the line - SOLVED

Tim,


On 2015-06-28 05:47, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Tim,
>
>
> On 2015-06-27 23:37, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2015-06-27 05:53, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>>>>>> nnoremap <F8> :Execute<CR>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you provide the content of your Execute() function? It
>>>>>> would help to replicate the behavior you want on an extract of
>>>>>> the line.
>> [snip stuff that isn't the definition of Execute]
>>>> I think Tim wanted the definition of the Execute command.
>>>
>>> ? I don't know what you mean - as far as I know using
>>> ":Execute . ." as I showed above in my .vimrc file is a built-in
>>> Vim thing?
>>
>> As you write it, it's a function/command brought in by some external
>> plugin as demonstrated by starting vim without any startup files:
>>
>> vim -u NONE
>> :Execute
>> E492: Not an editor command: Execute
>>
>> With your regular (started up without the "-u NONE") vim, you can
>> execute
>>
>> :verbose function
>> :verbose command
>>
>> to see where various items were defined. You want to see where the
>> "Execute" function/command was created. Based on your invocation
>> description, it *sounds* like it's a custom command rather than a
>> function, so you can minimize the noise by issuing
>>
>> :verbose command Execute
>
>
> Right - all is clear now . . that gives:
>
> :verbose command Execute
> Name Args Address Complete Definition
> Execute 0 . silent <line1>,<line2>yank z | let @z =
> substitute(@z, '\n\s*\\', '', 'g') | @z
> Last set from ~/.vimrc
>
>
>> which should give you just the info needed to track down where
>> "Execute" is defined.
>
>
> Which now I realise has been put into .vimrc - which I don't remember
> doing (it must have been a long time ago) but I should have found it
> before . . sorry . .:
>
> command! -bar -range Execute silent <line1>,<line2>yank z | let @z =
> substitute(@z, '\n\s*\\', '', 'g') | @z
>
>
>>>> Anyway, you can get the content of a line from the cursor to its
>>>> end with:
>>>>
>>>> getline(".")[col(".")-1:]
>>>>
>>>> You can pass that to whatever does you execution in you original
>>>> command.
>>>
>>> I still don't get what you are saying - how can I use the F8 key
>>> (that executes the command on the line in the text file - like I
>>> described above) with that getline command?
>>
>> Without the definition of the Execute function it's hard to tell how
>> to integrate Paul's "remainder of the line" snippet with the Execute
>> function.
>
>
> So I am guessing I can replace "<line1>,<line2>yank" with
> "getline(".")[col(".")-1:] z" ?


I eventually found that this worked for my needs:

command! -bar -range Execute silent <line1>,<line2>yank z | let @z =
substitute(@z, '^#', '', 'g') | @z

Phil.
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E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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