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  • Putting bars in maps (Score:2)

    by Damian (784) on 2006.08.11 18:54 (#49312)
    From the fine manual:
    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

    • 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 ...)

      • "nor do my various attempts".

      • How did you find that in the fine manual?

        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.

        If I hadn't, then I would have typed:

        :help bar<TAB>

        (where that <TAB> is literally the act of hitting the TAB key). That would have produced:

        bar                cpo-bar            'toolbar'          gui-scrollbars
        :bar 

        • 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!

        • 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.
    • Google can do a pretty good job of putting bars in maps, I suspect. :-)
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