Re: Access vim command from the lua end WAS: How do the default key commands work

On 2011-01-31 Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> > So I rephrase my question. How to access basic vim commands (here: %) from
> > inside lua? How to access an arbitrary vim function from inside lua?
>
> Use the :normal command (probably with ! to avoid using user mappings).
> E.g.
>
> :lua vim.command"normal! %"
>
> Then to get the cursor position, you can use the getpos() function. E.g.
>
> :lua mypos = vim.eval"getpos('.')"
>

Thank you very much.

Marco

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