I posted this a while ago on vim_use, but no response. It looks like either a bug or a very misleading :help entry.
The thread is about how using :let-@ will automatically append a ^J character if the text ends in ^M (useful for yanked text, but causes unintended side effects when editing a recorded macro). http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/fa96cad79cdfaadb/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Fritz <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:40 PM Subject: Re: unexpected behavior of :let-@ To: vim_use <[email protected]> On Jul 26, 12:57 pm, ZyX <[email protected]> wrote: > Reply to message «unexpected behavior of :let-@», > sent 20:36:08 26 July 2011, Tuesday > by Ben Fritz: > > Not related to documentation fix, but you can use `setreg()' to avoid this > behavior. > Nice! I'd forgotten about setreg(), finding it completely unnecessary after being pointed to :let-@. I guess I'll be revisiting it. I do see that for it to work as I want, I need to explicitly give the 'c' flag as the type. :help setreg() indicates that you should be able to change the type of a register which already has content: You can also change the type of a register by appending nothing: :call setreg('a', '', 'al') But, I tried: :let @a='^M' :reg a → ^M^J :call setreg('a','','ac') :reg a → ^M^J Did I misunderstand how this is supposed to work? I would expect the ^J to be removed after changing the type. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
