On Oct 28, 6:26 am, John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 26, 7:11 am, rameo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > John exactly the same command as in the vimrc file. > > > :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR> > > We're at cross purposes here. menu.vim is run a part of gui > initialization, before the file being edited is loaded. If I put > exactly > > :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR> > > in menu.vim, I get an error dialogue box saying: > > Error detected while processing /home/john/.vim/menu.vim: > line 18: > E20: Mark not set > > Indeed, the same applies to the .vimrc. > I assumed that you'd put in menu.vim something to get a menu entry > that would do the search and replace, something like (split over two > lines because google groups will split it anyway): > > anoremenu 20.305 &Edit.Capitalize\ &List > \ :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR> > > Now, doing this, I found that the backslash before the | had to be > doubled. However, for a mapping in the vimrc file, the same applies: > > map <F4> :'<,'>s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR> > > This shows there is indeed a difference between the menu entry and the > mapping, to do with the range given with the '< and '> marks; using > the mapping as above fails if the visual selection is still displayed, > because the marks are entered twice. You'd need another mapping for > visual mode: > > vmap <F4> :s/^\([-*]\\|\d*\.\)\s*\l/\U&/gc<CR> > > However, I'm not sure I understand what you've done, or are trying to > do. Is the problem with the | the incompatibility you're referring > to? That occurs because | is used to have multiple commands on the > command line, see :help map_bar, and there's various vi-compatible > kludges. > > Regards, John
Yes that it! The backslash before the "I" had to be doubled. I resolved also another problem adding an extra backslash. Thanks John and Ben for your help :) -- 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
