1) If I understand right, :append is used this way :append line1 line2 . and . means end, in a similar way as cat <<EOF line1 line2 EOF
What could I do if I want to insert a line containing only a point. I don't really need this but I'm curious ;-) 2) With the cat example above, it's possible to write things like cat <<EOF $var line2 EOF Has vim something similar (by default not it seems)? And is there a better solution than :execute "normal o" . var . "\nline2" to handle this case? 3) I've just read in the documentation that if 'cpo' option doesn't contain C, :append a \b . would write ab because the \ is understood as line continuation. I have cpo=aABceFs (the default configuration, on my computer) But I obtain a \b (actually C or not does not seem to change anything, do I miss something?) 4) and a last one about ex use It seems that one uses ex in the following way ex file <<EOF %s/pattern/replace/g w EOF a) In this case, I do not write wq or x at the end but w and it seems to work. Is it cleaner (necessary ?) to add :q as last line, or is it implicitely added. b) Has ex an option such as -s (meaning string) so that a sh user could write the previous example this way sh -s '%s/pattern/replace/g | w' file (bash or zsh users can already use <<< for this, but I need sh in my case). What I don't like about ex ... <<EOF, is that it looks weird in an indented script (the here document must be stuck to the left margin it seems) Ranousse -- 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
