On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:43:48PM +0200, Johannes Schwarz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write my first vim-plugin, but I got stucked.
>
> I managed to execute an external command, which gives me back a list of
> filenames.
> One filename per line.
>
> For each of the filenames I want to execute another command.
> I tried it with code:
>
> let line=getline(".")
> while (strlen(line)!=0)
> "do sth. here -- construct the external command and so on
> j
> let line=getline(".")
> endwhile
Remember that a vim script (including a plugin) is a list of
commands in Command-Line (Ex) mode, not Normal mode. So that j means
:j[oin], not "move the cursor down one line." If you change "j" to "+"
it will be a step in the right direction.
> When I execute the code, it runns into an infinite loop, because the
> lines are joined together with each loop
>
> file:
> text1.txt
> text2.txt
> text3.txt
>
> after interrupting the loop the looks like
> text1.txt text2.txt text3.txt
That's right.
> it seems j is interpreted as a J (join line) here.
> And by the way, I think this is a bad solution anyway.
> Can someone give me a hint how to do it in a clean way?
Either
:g/./<any Command-Line mode command here>
or
let linenr = 0
while linenr < line("$")
let linenr += 1 " The += construction requires vim 7.0 .
let line = getline(linenr)
" ...
endwhile
HTH --Benji Fisher
