> i'm writing a small script which uses setline. i'm somewhat new to vim
> scripting. whenever setline was called i would get an error saying
> that this is not an editor command. after looking up in the
> documentation for setline, i changed it to call setline and everything
> started working. but i'm confused. when should i use call and when i
> simply just call a function?
>
> any help is appreciated.
>
In addition to all the replies you already got, there is an additional
possibility:
if setline(lnum, text)
echoerr "something went wrong calling setline(" lnum
\ . ", '" . string(text) . "')"
endif
since setline() returns a non-zero value if there was an error.
Best regards,
Tony.
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