On 2010-03-10, Tim Chase wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > >On 2010-03-10, pixelterra wrote: > >>seems some variation of :vimgrep may work, but i found the docs > >>cryptic. > > > >I thought that a refinement of > > > > :try | normal n | catch | n | endtry > > > >with 'nowrapscan' set might work, but even that much didn't work for > >me. I just got the error messages > > > > Error detected while processing : > > E385: search hit BOTTOM without match for: who > > > >and the 'catch' clause was never executed. > > did you try > > exec 'normal n' > > instead of > > normal n > > which eats the rest of your line, and if mapping, using "<bar>" > instead of "|"?
No. Duh. Thanks for pointing that out. > Andy's reply just came in: > > >@Gary: a try block cannot catch Beeps from a Normal mode > >command. > > but I'm not sure (1) where this is documented, and (2) why Gary > and I were getting the E385 (an error, not just a beep) and it > still wasn't being caught inline vs. in my function. > > Seeing Andy's solution, I like it better, but I'm still left > scratching my head a bit on try/except issues. Ditto. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
