you can run normal commands with
:normal
for example,
:normal dd
will delete a whole line
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:22, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: splitting $HOME/.vimrc
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:04:30 +0200
>
> > Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for my zsh I split the .zshrc in several files, which contain only
> > > related things. For example all "bindkey"-related things go into
> > > .zsh.bindkey.
> > >
> > > .zshrc only sources those parts if available. Make things more
> > > readable.
> > >
> > > I would like to do the same thing with my $HOME/.vimrc.
> > >
> > > I looked into
> > >
> > > :he source
> > >
> > > but "source" seems to work for ex commands only, or ?
> > >
> > > Is there a way, to "source" several files as startup files from
> > > within $HOME/.vimrc, without a too great performance penalty on
> > > startup time ?
> > >
> > > Keep hacking!
> > > mcc
> >
> > Your vimrc is supposed to consist of ex-commands only (ex-commands are
> > the commands you can type in Normal mode by prefixing them with a colon;
> > in a script such as the vimrc, the colon is not necessary). So you should
> > be able to dissect your vimrc into, let's say,
> >
> > if has('unix')
> > language messages C
> > else
> > language messages en
> > endif
> > runtime vimrc_example.vim
> > source ~/rc1.vim
> > source ~/rc2.vim
> > source ~/rc3.vim
> >
> > An alternative would be to create "user-plugins", scripts which you would
> > place in ~/.vim/plugin/ (for Unix) or ~/vimfiles/plugin/ (for Windows).
> > They would then be sourced automagically in (probably) alphabetical
> > order, just before the global plugins (i.e., after your ~/.vimrc): see
> > the output of the ":scriptnames" command.
> >
> > (and if you don't yet have the required directory, create it with:
> >
> > on Linux:
> >
> > mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin
> >
> > on Windows:
> >
> > cd %HOME%
> > md vimfiles
> > cd vimfiles
> > md plugin
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tony.
>
> Hi Tony, :)
>
> thank you for your helpful reply !
>
> Initially I thought, ex-commands were only a small subset of all
> commands, which can be used after ":".
>
> But...
>
> If _all_ commands, which are valid after ":", are ex-commands...the
> situation is quite simple.
>
> By the way: I am using Linux. Since kernel 1.1.54 my room has no
> windows anymore.... ;)
>
> Keep hacking!
> mcc
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