On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 8:17:20 AM UTC-5, Igor Forca wrote:
> > So I need to do write something in the following logic:
> >
> > if
> > one or many semicolon characters exists in plan text file
> > then
> > in status bar display error message: "Corrupted file. Please check
> for semicolon character."
> > and do not continue executing commands
> > else
> > do all that substitute commands.
> > end
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Probably you want the search() function, which will return 0 if no matches
> are found in the buffer.
More explicitly, try something like this (untested):
:source foo.vim
where foo.vim contains the lines
if search(';', 'cnw')
echoerr 'Corrupted file. Please check for semicolon character.'
finish
endif
%s/\<emacs\>/vim/g
:help search()
:help :echoerr
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HTH, Benji Fisher
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