On 16/12/08 20:12, BigAl wrote:
> How can I break out of a series of commandline commands from within
> the commandline?
>
> Here is my command line, it finds the text "XXXX" and replaces that
> text with an incremented number (variable i) up to the max replacement
> value of 3999.
> :let i=1120|%g/XXXX/s/\zsXXXX\ze/\=i/|let i=i+1|if (i> 3999)|break|
> endif
>
> Everything works great except for the "break" statement. When the
> "break" is hit it generates an error since break is only intended for
> use with a while statement. I've tried putting the "<Esc>" text in
> place of the break statement, I've tried inserting a ctrl-c in line...
> and I can't make any of them work.
Here's another attempt (untested)
:let i = 1120 | %g/XXXX/s/XXXX/\=(i<4000?i:submatch(0)) | let i += 1
Alternately, you might put a try/endtry block around the argument of the
":g" statement to catch the generated error, see
:help :try
:help :catch
:help :finally
Best regards,
Tony.
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