Reply to message «Re: Extended version of file:line script», 
sent 17:02:09 03 January 2011, Monday
by Dr. David Alan Gilbert:


> * Christian Brabandt ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Mo, 03 Jan 2011, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > >                 if (names[3])
> > >                 
> > >                         exe "normal " . names[3] . "|"
> > >                 
> > >                 endif
> > 
> > It probably doesn't matter in this case, but in general you should
> > always use :normal!
> 
> Why - what does that do for me?
For you - nothing, at least now. It just makes your script independent of user 
mappings: pretend that user has remapped `|' to `gg' for some reason. In this 
case ``normal 10|'' will bring you to 10th line, but ``normal! 10|'' will work 
as expected.

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