For future reference, I'm quoting here what a guy in stackoverflow suggested:
Note that the semantics of :normal changes when it is contained in a try...catch loop, or executed through :silent!: Without it, execution of the command sequence aborts when an error is encountered; the rest of the sequence is discarded (like in a macro). With it, all commands execute, even if an error occurs. Therefore, you can get the desired behavior with :silent! normal! yi<yi( Seems a bit cleaner to me than calling :normal twice. Regards (and thank you again, Christian) -- Carlos On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Di, 28 Jan 2014, Carlos Pita wrote: >> thanks for your prompt reply! It's still not clear to me whether >> yanking a non-existent text object always raises an error or not. >> cpoptions E seems to apply to y<motion> but it's not clearly stated >> (at least, I can't find that statement) what happens with y<object>. > > I think, there is no such thing as an empty text object. If the text > object isn't valid, Vim raises an error and this also happens in normal > mode (you can see, by :set visualbell and see how the terminal flashes > when doing yi< and the cursor not being within a <> pair. > > This errors causes, that your mapping will be aborted. > > Best, > Christian > -- > I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to > tell such LIES! > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_use/nBBm61o00pI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
