On Wed, March 7, 2012 13:03, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
>> On So, 04 Mär 2012, Tim Chase wrote:
>>
>> > On 03/04/12 00:49, Paul Isambert wrote:
>> > >howard Schwartz<howard...@gmail.com> a écrit:
>> > >>au BufRead * for i in range(1,9) | let @i = "" | endfor
>> > >
>> > >You should use ":exe[cute]":
>> > >
>> > > au BufRead * for i in range(1,9) | exe "let @" . i . " = ''" |
>> endfor
>> >
>> >
>> > In attempting to answer for this, I reached for
>> > curly-braces-expansion but discovered it didn't work as expected:
>> >
>> > :let i=3
>> > :let @{i}=''
>> > :echo @{i}
>> >
>> > returned an E18 (on the let) and an E15 (on the echo). If I issue
>> >
>> > :let i=3
>> > :let x{i}=42
>> > :echo x3
>> >
>> > it works as expected. Reading up at
>> >
>> > :help curly-braces-names
>> >
>> > doesn't give me much insight. Any takers to tell me it's a bug or
>> > point out my misunderstanding?
>>
>> Attached patch fixes it
>
> Well, it supports the curly-braces notation in a two more places. But I
> prefer to not further develop curly braces.
>
> It works with the :execute solution, right?
Fair enough. It should be mentioned in the docs then, that curly-brace
expansion does not work with registers.
regards,
Christian
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