Re: VimL: How to make a variable?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:01:20 -0700 (PDT)
Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:50:50 PM UTC-5, stevelitt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'd like to make a variable, set once and read everywhere (I guess
> > that
> >
> > makes it a global variable), in VimL. What's the syntax to set and
> > read
> >
> > that variable?
> >
>
> Preface the variable name with g:
>
> See :help global-variable
>
> and more generally :help internal-variables

Thanks Ben, that worked perfectly.

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?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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