[email protected] wrote:
Inside a funtion definition I want to execute a search
with a fixed search pattern including regexp portions.
When I want to execute a command from inside a function
definition I would do a
:<command>
and the ':' would switch to command mode.
But
/<string>
inside a function definition looks more like the start
of pattern as such and not like the instruction to
search something to me...
It ("/") is a valid Ex command:
function! FindFoo()
/foo
endfunction
which you can read briefly about at
:help :/
and with no real help-anchor:
:help :bar
or
:help cmdline.txt
where you'll have to search for this bit of help:
Because of Vi compatibility the following
strange commands are supported:
:| print current line (like ":p")
:3| print line 3 (like ":3p")
:3 goto line 3
most importantly the "goto line 3" applies to any
range-specifier, not just a fixed line-number. I'm not sure how
I stumbled across this, except perhaps remembering how it worked
in "ed" and just trying it.
Anyways, that means you can validly do things like
function! Find2ndLineAfterFoo()
/foo/+2
endfunction
At least that's my preferred way. One could also reach for
something like
call search(...)
but my preference is just my old-fogey nature showing through :)
Hope this helps,
-tim
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