Re: readfile() and writefile() in practice

On 2014-10-06, Benjamin Klein wrote:
> As far as I can tell, readfile() and writefile() have something
> against new lines. If I read a file and then immediately write
> that (a List) to another file, I get all of the first file's
> contents in a single line of the new file.
>
> Is this just something I'm doing wrong? As it is, I apparently
> can't preserve new lines in a file when using these functions.

I think it's something you're doing wrong.

I just tried the following experiment, where main.c is a six-line
text file I happened to have in my home directory.

$vim -N -u NONE
:let l = readfile("main.c")
:call writefile(l, "main.copy")
:e main.copy

The result looked fine. "diff main.c main.copy" shows the files to
be identical, too.

I'm using vim 7.4.463 on Linux.

Can you show a simple example of what you're doing that isn't
working?

Regards,
Gary

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