Re: vim script: repeat(\)

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:34:17 AM UTC-6, ping wrote:
> On 2/20/2013 4:36 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:
>
> > Your mapping should look like:
>
> >
>
> > :nnore <expr> ,gg ':'.MyGit("new post")
>
> that really works!, so looks the key here is
>
> 1) use <expr> as you mentioned,
>
> 2) use ":" . func()
>
> 3) return the command string from the func
>
>
>
> great to learn!
>
> >
>
> > Then your command can look something like:
>
> >
>
> > :command! MyGit exec MyGit(<q-args>)
>
> this also works, but
>
> it seems the exec helps to
>
> 1) evaluate the expression, but also
>
> 2) execute the result right away.
>
> is there a way to evaluate the express (1) , but not to "execute"
>
> them(2) , in "command" ?
>
>
>
> none of these works...
>
> command! -nargs=* MyGit call MyGit(<q-args>)
>
> command! -nargs=* MyGit eval(":" . MyGit(<q-args>))
>

For that, I'd use an <expr> cabbrev similar to your <expr> map.

Then you would type :MyGit<Space> and it would expand to something completely different which you could then edit, or you could type :MyGit<Enter> to execute the default.

A similar cabbrev technique is used here for vimgrep:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_in_files_within_Vim

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