Nick wrote: > Hi all, > > Vim 7.2 on Linux. I'm having problems getting my head around how to > escape chars in a string used within a function. BTW, I'm a programmer > and experienced vim user, but new to vim scripting. > > I want to insert some html tags at current cursor location, not the next > line. > > String to insert: > <a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a> > > Based on strings surrounded by '' not being interpreted, as per the help, > I was going to use: > put='<a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a>' > > but it bombs out at the '=' after href. The string *is* being interpreted.
Nick, When using the = register with the :put command, you have to escape both | and ". Try the following... put='<a href=\"#footnote1\" id=\"back1\">[1]</a>' :help :put Hope it helps... Brett Stahlman > > However, if I use the string in a variable and append it using exe: > let footnote = '<a href="#footnote1" id="back1">[1]</a>" > exe "normal a" . footnote > > it works fine. Clearly I don't understand when escapes are needed and why > exe works but put doesn't. > > Can anyone point me to where in the manual you can find out about these > things? > > Thanks, -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
