On Sun 17-Sep-06 4:18pm -0600, you wrote: > Bill McCarthy wrote: >> Hello Vim List, >> >> I wrote a command to perform :helpgrep on just the >> distribution help files. My first pass was: >> >> command! -nargs=1 HG sil RTPtemp >> \ | exe 'helpg <args>' >> \ | sil RTPrestore >> >> RTPtemp and RTPrestore are commands taking no args (they are >> defined below my sig). >> >> To get this to work, I had to enclose 'sil RTPtemp' in an >> 'exe': >> >> command! -nargs=1 HG exe 'sil RTPtemp' >> \ | exe 'helpg <args>' >> \ | sil RTPrestore >> >> Why? >>
> RTPtemp is defined without -bar. Therefore > :sil RTPtemp | exe 'helpg <args>' | sil RTPrestore > is invalid. > But if it were defined with -bar, the whole text would be seen as > argument of the first ":silent". You need ":exe" to terminate the first > ":silent" before ":exe 'helpg <args>'". Thanks for the '-bar' tip! However, including -bar in my definitions for both RTPrestore and RTPtemp, does not appear to cause the :sil to apply to more than the RTPtemp. (The :helpg works as usual and removing :sil before RTPrestore causes it to write its message to the command line area. My original definition works perfectly. -- Best regards, Bill
