Re: VimL: How to make a variable?

On 2014-10-03, Steve Litt wrote:

> I've read the help for global-variable, internal-variables, and
> normal!, but still can't find how to do a replace. Consider the
> following "hello world" script, called ~/test.vim:
>
> =================================
> let g:myvar="MyVariableText"
> normal! sg:myvar
> =================================
>
> In a regular file, when I do this:
>
> :sou ~/test.vim
>
> It replaces the current character with the literal "g.myvar" instead of
> "MyVariableText". How do I get it to use the *value* of the variable
> instead of the *name* of the variable?

:help :exe

Example:

exe "normal! s" . g:myvar

Regards,
Gary

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