Re: basic question on vim scripting

On Mar 11, 2014 7:00 PM, "Matteo Cavalleri" <cvlmtg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm playing a bit with a vim script, and I'm stuck on this problem:
>
>         if exists('b:current_line')
>             echom "normal! ".b:current_line."G"
>             exe "normal! ".b:current_line."G"
>             echom 'line is '.line('.')
>         endif
>
> If I run the script

When and how? It may appear that you do this too late, too early, on wrong buffer or in wrong context (after running code in a specific context cursor is restored. I do not remember what context though: some autocmd maybe? Or &*expr, though they usually use textlock).

> and then do :messages, the output is this one:
>
> normal! 6G
> line is 1
>
> and I can't understand why the cursor doesn't move... (I'm not even sure this is the correct way to move, as google isn't helping me much)

Since you have a variable cursor() mentioned above is better.

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