Re: How to execute Vim commands from commands.vim file to my text mydata.txt file?

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On March 23, 2015 4:11:09 PM EAT, Igor Forca <igor2x@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>using Vim 7.4 on Windows 7. I have a text file mydata.txt where is the
>text. I need to execute Vim commands on this data to transform data in
>file to my desired content. Because data in mydata.txt file is changed
>very frequently I would like to store Vim commands in separate file
>e.g. commands.vim and then execute those commands on mydata.txt file.
>
>Searching the web and the only solution that I have come into was the
>following.
>
>1. Save bellow comment to commands.vim file:
>===============
>:%s/ship/vessel/ge
>:%s/What/That/ge
>
>for line in getline(1, 2)
> let @a = line
> @a
>endfor

I am wondering what you are trying to achieve with this cycle. If the rest of the file does what you want just remove it because it is useless and potentially harmful.

Note that here you are trying to execute first two lines *of the file you edit*. **Not** of the commands.vim file.

>===============
>
>2. Save bellow content to mydata.txt file.
>===============
>This is one big ship. What ship?
>===============
>
>3. Open mydata.txt file with Vim and execute command:
>:source commands.vim
>
>4. The result after executed above command is:
>===============
>This is one big vessel. That vessel?
>===============
>
>This is exactly what I want as a result in mydata.txt file, but what I
>don't like is I get the following error:
>===============
>Error detected while processing C:\commands.vim file:
>line 6:
>E492: Not an editor command: This is one big vessel. That vessel?
>===============
>
>Is there a way to avoid the error message? Commands.vim file does what
>I want, but how to remove annoying error?
>Thanks

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