CODEWITHSUNDEEP
htmlvim
user985675
user985675

Reputation: 291

vim how transfer :substitute command to script

Here are 2 :s commands. Work fine at command line or as part of a key mapping, but I cannot get them to run correctly in a vim script. I've used normal, execute, execute "normal..." and call normal on them. I've put the range with the s, and before normal, I've tried them with and without a : before the s. How should I write them within a .vim file?

:%s/<[\/]\?SPAN\|DIV\|OPTION[^>]*>//gi
:%s/<\(hr\|h[1-6]\|ul\|li\|p\|tt\|ol\|table\|tr\|td\|p\) [^>]\+/<\1/gi

Upvotes: 1

Views: 218

Answers (2)

ZyX
ZyX

Reputation: 53654

You should just add them to a script. You don’t have to prefix them with anything in this case.

Upvotes: 0

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172698

You can put Ex commands like yours into a myscript.vim file, then execute the commands via

:source myscript.vim

This should work without modifications (you don't need the leading :, but it doesn't hurt). I don't see any problems, and you don't need :execute unless you want to include variables. :normal is for normal-mode commands (like diw, for example).

Typically, you'd place those custom commands into a function, though (which would be placed in ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/plugin/myscript.vim), and invoke it via :call, either directly, via a mapping, or custom command.

Upvotes: 2

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