On 2010-01-20, smu johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:57 PM, smu johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > :help :startinsert > > Hi! > > If i do startinsert! in the if statement... and then try to write the > following if statement, i'm quite sure how to "write" text without it > thinking that my if statement itself is the text I want to write. > > if a:pos == "comment_and_write" > startappend! > else > startinsert! > endif > > if (condition) > the big brown fox jumped over the lazy dog > stopinsert > endif > > <--- confused :( Me, too. > Perhaps it cannot be done. > > NOTE: These commands cannot be used with |:global| or |:vglobal|. > ":append" and ":insert" don't work properly in between ":if" and > ":endif", ":for" and ":endfor", ":while" and ":endwhile". > > *sad face* Hi, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. You've given examples of attempted solutions that don't work, but it's not clear to me what you're trying to get vim to do. It may be that it can be done, just not the way you're approaching it. Regards, Gary
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