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Peeter Joot
Peeter Joot

Reputation: 8260

Paste command skipped in vim script to move selection of lines to end of file?

I'm trying to script a simple set of vim commands, and can use this sequence of commands interactively to do what I want. For example, given the following file contents

#if 0
#include "foo.h"
#include "goo.h"
a <<< HERE >>>
b
c
#endif

when positioned on the line 'a', after the #include lines, I can do:

:,/endif/-1 d
:$
:p
:w

However, when I put these commands in a file ('a_vim_script'), and run:

:source a_vim_script

vim reports:

3 fewer lines
"f" 5L, 68C written
Press ENTER or type command to continue

and produces:

#if 0
#include "foo.h"
#include "goo.h"
#endif

instead of what I get when I do these commands interactively:

#if 0
#include "foo.h"
#include "goo.h"
#endif
a
b
c

The delete, move and write commands all execute, but the paste gets skipped mysteriously?

I can do this task other ways. For example, this script does what I want (and then moves to the next selection in my vim -q list) :

:,$!echo '\#endif\n' && grep -v '\#endif'
:w
:cn

However, why is it that the 'p' paste command in the first little vim script gets skipped?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 57

Answers (1)

Peter Rincker
Peter Rincker

Reputation: 45117

:p is not short for :put it is short for :print. Please use :put or :pu for short.

Additionally you should probably be using the :move command instead of :delete and :put.

:,/endif/-m $

For more information see:

:h :p
:h :pu
:h :m

Upvotes: 1

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