On Mi, 13 Jan 2016, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use wrote:
> On 1/12/2016 10:48 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> ...
> >
> > while(textm =~ '^\s*$') " will always exit from while
> > ...
> > let textm = getline(cline-i)
> > endwhile
> >
> >There is no exit condition, once cline-i is smaller than 1.
> >In that case getline returns an empty string,
>
> Not according to the documentation for :help getline():
>
> When {lnum} is smaller than 1 or bigger than the
> number of lines in the buffer, an empty string is
> returned.
>
> That is the reason for the comment (will always exit from while).
You misunderstood. There is no reason, why the empty string '' should
not match '^$'. (you can basically omit the \s*)
This has been changed by patch 7.4.129, previously getline(-1) returned
-1 and that made your loop break.
Best,
Christian
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