On Sat 7-Oct-06 7:06pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> Bill McCarthy wrote:
>> On Sat 7-Oct-06 5:17pm -0600, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>>> Every time I look at the {autocmd BufReadPost * \ if
>>> line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | exe "normal
>>> g`\"" |endif} sequence , I get a feeling like the switch
>>> which would need to be acessible and reachable inside the
>>> car near the driver seat, was palced under the hood near
>>> the engine, and when one needs to access it, you need to
>>> get out of the car and open the hood.
>> It's probably that extraneous '\' escaping a space between
>> '*' and 'if' :-)
>>
>> But if you don't mind the losing the out-of-range checking:
>>
>> autocmd BufReadPost * '"
> 1. Apparently your mailer un-beautified the text a little
> too zealously. That backslash was supposed to be the first
> character on a continuation line.
No, on the original post by Yakov, that first '\' is
physically on the same line as 'autocmd'.
> 2. "normal" would still be required in the autocommand,
> because an autocommand is always an ex-command.
No, '" is a ex-command (or certainly behaves like one). Try
it out. Open a file, move the cursor somewhere and note
where. Now close it and reopen. If you have the above
':autocmd' you will be in the same position as when you
closed (if not issue a normal mode '").
Now move the cursor up a few lines and type the following:
:'"
It is not, AFAIK, documented as an ex-command, but is works
as part of an ex-command command range and behaves like it
is translated to the line number of the '" position.
The usage as a range is documented. :h :'
Unfortunately, it does change the jumplist.
> 3. To replace the cursor on the exact character where it
> used to be, the mark must be called with a backtick: `"
> not an apostrophe: '" -- the latter would put the cursor
> on the first non-blank on the line.
Yes, you're right. But `" doesn't work as an ex-command.
For just skipping the range checking but preserving the
jumplist, the command is:
autocmd BufReadPost * exe "norm g`\""
--
Best regards,
Bill
