On Mon, 22 May 2006 at 5:45pm, James Vega wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:11:49PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: > > > > In a Vim7 session, after working for sometime, I started getting a weird > > error, when one of my plugins did the below: > > > > :put="" > > This is the same as using: > > :put = > > Double quotes are Vim's comment character so you either need to use > single quotes or escape the double quotes.
Interesting... since it takes an expression, I never doubted whether double-quotes will work. I should go back and check if I used double quotes in any of my other plugins too... hopefully not. > > > and the error was: > > > > E121: Undefined variable: retVal > > E15: Invalid expression: retVal > > As noted in the help for :put, if nothing is specified after '=' then > the previous expression is used. In this case, it appears that > contained a variable that was no longer in scope. > > James > Perfect, that explains what was happening. -- Thanks, Hari __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
