OK, this is not behavior I was expecting. Sometimes I'll post code in places where I don't have code or ecode tags, so I need to manually encode the '&', '<' and '>' symbols. That gets very annoying, particularly since I often find myself encoding the ampersand last, screwing up the other encodings and having to redo it. I figured that a simple vim mapping would do this:
noremap ,e :%s/&/\&/g | %s/>/\>/g |%s/
However, that fails because as soon as I source my .vimrc, it rus the second and third subtitutions! So I tried again:
noremap ,e :exe '%s/&/\&/g | %s/>/\>/g |%s/
That does the same thing. What gives? Am I going to have to write a function for this?
Since the '|' character is used to separate a map command from the next
command, you will have to do something special to include a '|' in {rhs}.
There are three methods:
use works when example
<Bar> '<' is not in 'cpoptions' :map _l:!ls <Bar> more^M
\| 'b' is not in 'cpoptions' :map _l:!ls \| more^M
^V| always, in Vim and Vi :map _l:!ls ^V| more^M
Re:Putting bars in maps
Ovid on 2006-08-12T17:26:00
How did you find that in the fine manual? "help |" doesn't help, nor does my various attempts at escaping the bar. (Well, I've had trouble escaping bars before, but I equivocate
...) Re:Putting bars in maps
Ovid on 2006-08-12T17:26:56
"nor do my various attempts".
Re:Putting bars in maps
Damian on 2006-08-12T22:48:27
I've actually read the entire manual (because I'm writing a book on Vim), so it was more a matter of remembering than finding.How did you find that in the fine manual?If I hadn't, then I would have typed:
(where that:help bar<TAB> <TAB>is literally the act of hitting the TAB key). That would have produced:at which point it's trivial to find thebar cpo-bar 'toolbar' gui-scrollbars
:bar map_bar +toolbar -scrollbarwidth
/bar expr-barbar gui-toolbar 'toolbariconsize'
/\bar CTRL-W_bar toolbar-icon
:\bar escape-bar hl-PmenuSbar
bars <Bar> hl-Scrollbar
:help barmap_barentry.Re:Putting bars in maps
Ovid on 2006-08-12T23:19:13
A book on vim? Thank god. We've desperately needed a really good one. A friend of mine is kind of a vim god and people keep telling him he needs to write such a book, but it's good to know it's actually going to get written. I'll buy it!
Re:Putting bars in maps
dws on 2006-08-13T00:25:33
This is good news. We need a good book on vim. There's a lot of power that goes way under-exploited because of the lack of readable, well-indexed documentation.Re:Putting bars in maps
jmm on 2006-08-12T18:09:32
Google can do a pretty good job of putting bars in maps, I suspect.:-)
