Trying to escape tab in exe
If I type in the following ex command:
:e /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/
and then press TAB, I get a wildmenu for the target
directory. Yay!
But I can't get this same function to work programmatically.
I have the following two functions:
function! EdDir(dir)
execute 'e ' . a:dir . '/\Tab'
endfunction
function! EdControllers()
execute 'call EdDir(' . g:ControllerFolder . ')'
endfunction
where g:ControllerFolder is '/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers'
If I execute
: call EdControllers()cr
vim opens a new file
/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/Tab
grrr!
So how do I escape the Tab?
I've tried
:h execute, and don't find any help there.
thanks
using vim 7.2 Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI
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Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
On 05/06/11 00:30, Tim Johnson wrote:
If I type in the following ex command:
:e /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/
and then press TAB, I get a wildmenu for the target
directory. Yay!
But I can't get this same function to work programmatically.
I have the following two functions:
function! EdDir(dir)
execute 'e ' . a:dir . '/\Tab'
endfunction
function! EdControllers()
execute 'call EdDir(' . g:ControllerFolder . ')'
endfunction
where g:ControllerFolder is '/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers'
If I execute
: call EdControllers()cr
vim opens a new file
/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/Tab
grrr!
So how do I escape the Tab?
I've tried
:h execute, and don't find any help there.
thanks
using vim 7.2 Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI
IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.).
HTH,
Tony.
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Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
On Saturday, June 04, 2011 19:00:39 Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 05/06/11 00:30, Tim Johnson wrote:
If I type in the following ex command:
:e /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/
and then press TAB, I get a wildmenu for the target
directory. Yay!
But I can't get this same function to work programmatically.
I have the following two functions:
---
- function! EdDir(dir)
execute 'e ' . a:dir . '/\Tab'
endfunction
---
- function! EdControllers()
execute 'call EdDir(' . g:ControllerFolder . ')'
endfunction
---
- where g:ControllerFolder is
'/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers' If I
execute
: call EdControllers()cr
vim opens a new file
/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/Tab
grrr!
So how do I escape the Tab?
I've tried
:h execute, and don't find any help there.
thanks
using vim 7.2 Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI
IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.).
another way to approach it would be to call glob() with an
asterisk in place of the Tab
sc
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Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
* Tony Mechelynck antoine.mechely...@gmail.com [110604 16:09]: vim opens a new file /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/Tab grrr! So how do I escape the Tab? I've tried IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.). Thank you for the reply Tony. I did the following: set wildcharm=Tab in the same file as the code I have included. sourced the file again, but I still have the problem. My brain has still not grokked this problem. I've even tried (from the example in the helpfile): set wildcharm=C-Z with code changes to execute 'e ' a:dir . '/\C-Z' or execute 'e ' a:dir . '/C-Z' and blush I get a file name C-Z. Not what I want - obviously. thanks again -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
* sc tooth...@swbell.net [110604 16:24]: using vim 7.2 Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.). another way to approach it would be to call glob() with an asterisk in place of the Tab sc Thanks sc, but could you illustrate with an example: `glob' is new to me, so I am in meantime looking at help and doing some experimenting. cheers -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
On 05/06/11 02:26, Tim Johnson wrote: * Tony Mechelynckantoine.mechely...@gmail.com [110604 16:09]: vim opens a new file /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/Tab grrr! So how do I escape the Tab? I've tried IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.). Thank you for the reply Tony. I did the following: set wildcharm=Tab in the same file as the code I have included. sourced the file again, but I still have the problem. My brain has still not grokked this problem. I've even tried (from the example in the helpfile): set wildcharm=C-Z with code changes to execute 'e ' a:dir . '/\C-Z' or execute 'e ' a:dir . '/C-Z' andblush I get a file nameC-Z. Not what I want - obviously. thanks again Ah, sorry, I missed that thing about escaping the tab. See :help expr-string :help literal-string Within single quotes, every character is taken literally, even a backslash, except that two single quotes mean one. You should have used double quotes with backslash-escaping, like this (referring to your original post): exec 'e' a:dir . /\t or execute 'e ' . a.dir . /\Tab HTH, Tony. -- THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13: SLOBOL SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler. Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the coffee. Forty-three programmers are known to have died of boredom sitting at their terminals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers often turn to a related (but infinitely faster) language, COCAINE. -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
* Tony Mechelynck antoine.mechely...@gmail.com [110604 18:04]: Within single quotes, every character is taken literally, even a backslash, except that two single quotes mean one. Aha! You should have used double quotes with backslash-escaping, like this (referring to your original post): exec 'e' a:dir . /\t or execute 'e ' . a.dir . /\Tab :) Now we are getting somewhere. With your example above, I get the directory itself in a vim buffer window. Which is useful, but preferable, I want to see the wildmenu for the directory. As if I were to manually in ex type: e /home/http/run/baker/xmlimport/modelsTab thanks -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
exec 'e' a:dir . /\t
or
execute 'e ' . a.dir . /\Tab
:) Now we are getting somewhere. With your example above,
I get the directory itself in a vim buffer window. Which
is useful, but preferable, I want to see the wildmenu for
the directory.
As if I were to manually in ex type:
e /home/http/run/baker/xmlimport/modelsTab
Try the feedkeys() function:
:call feedkeys('e ' . a.dir . /\Tab)
If you check out the help for feedkeys() you will see documentation
about a second argument which you might like to include and experiment
with to get the results you want reliably.
I haven't tested it, so I may be completely wrong, but I think it might be what
you want!
Ben.
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Re: Trying to escape tab in exe
* Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au [110604 19:05]:
Try the feedkeys() function:
:call feedkeys('e ' . a.dir . /\Tab)
If you check out the help for feedkeys() you will see documentation
about a second argument which you might like to include and experiment
with to get the results you want reliably.
I haven't tested it, so I may be completely wrong, but I think it
might be what you want!
Ben, I think you may be on to something here:
executing
call feedkeys('e ' . a:dir . /\Tab)
puts
/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/models/^I
into ex
which is not what we want (it's interpeted as
a search pattern), however `feedkeys' looks promising.
It is late where I am at. I will pursue this further in the
morning.
Thanks everybody.
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