Bill McCarthy wrote:
> On Sat 16-Sep-06 5:23pm -0600, Elliot Shank wrote:
>> From what I understand from the help, you should be able
>> to use <afile> anywhere in an autocmd to get the name of
>> the file being dealt with. So why does this complain
>> "E121: Undefined variable: afile":
>>
>> autocmd BufNewFile *.pm echomsg 'Creating ' <afile>
>>
>> Obviously, I don't understand when this can be used.
>
> You could use it like this:
>
> autocmd BufNewFile *.pm echomsg 'Creating ' . expand("<afile>")
> or
> autocmd BufNewFile *.pm echomsg 'Creating' expand("<afile>")
Cool!
Thanks!
