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Rovire Pugerou
Rovire Pugerou

Reputation: 41

How to get command line arguments from VimL?

How can I access the arguments that were given to Vim on the command line under Windows?

I'm looking for the the equivalent to argv[] in C.

Under linux you can read /proc/self/cmdline. Example:

vim -c ":echo split( readfile( \"/proc/self/cmdline\", 1 )[0], \"\n\" )"

print

[
  'vim',
  '-c',
  ':echo split( readfile( "/proc/self/cmdline", 1 )[0], "\n" )'
]

argc() and argv() don't work. They just return number of files. Example:

vim -c ':echo "argc:" . argc() . ", argv:" . string( argv() )' file1 file2

print

argc:2, argv:['file1', 'file2']

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1101

Answers (2)

cwillu
cwillu

Reputation: 21

In the specific case of needing argv[0] (i.e., the name vim was called by), you can use v:progname.

Upvotes: 2

mhinz
mhinz

Reputation: 3361

:help argc()
:help argv()
:help argidx()

And maybe also :help argument-list, just to be sure.

Simple example:

for arg in argv()
  echo arg
endfor

Upvotes: 5

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