On 5/26/06, Eric Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try expanding it.
au SourcePre *.vim echomsg "afile=" . expand("<afile>")
au SourcePre *.vim let @a = <afile>
au SourcePre *.vim let @a = expand("<afile>" )
On 5/26/06, Zdenek Sekera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to before :sourc'ing a file to execute
> one of my scripts (always the same).
>
> I though the autocmd 'SourcePre' event will
> help nut I can't get it work the way I'd needed it:
>
> As a first test I did:
> :au SourcePre *.vim let g:sfile=<afile>
> then <amatch> (I know <sfile> will not
> work before it gets expanded too early)
>
> If I now do :source test.vim
> which contains just 'echo g:sfile'
> I get errors about invalid expression <afile>
> or <amatch> depending what I used for :au.
>
> The idea was to get the file name in g:sfile of the
> file which is about to be sourced so I can call my
> function (in that autocmd) to process the file
> before it's :sourced.
> How can this be done?
>
> I also thought 'runtime' is somehow equivalent
> to :source, except it is smart enough
> to use 'runtimepath'. Using the same test above
> (':runtime test.vim') I found this does *not*
> fire up the autocmd while :source does.
>
> Is this intentional or can it be considered a bug?
>
> ---Zdenek
>
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