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• I'm guessing matchstr is what you're after (Score:2)

  by wickline (135)

  function! GotoCFile()
      :write!
      :redraw!
   
      let cfile_prefix     = '#\s*cfile:\s*'
      let cfile_expression = cfile_prefix . '\w\+'
      if match(getline('.'), cfile_expression) > -1
          let good_line = matchstr(getline('.'), cfile_expression)
          " probably need some more interesting way to make a relative path
          " also need to get rid of any stuff that might
  • Re:I'm guessing matchstr is what you're after (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709) on 2005.09.13 11:52 (#43253) Homepage Journal

    Out of curiosity, how did you learn Vim scripting? Is there a decent tutorial out there or did you go through the docs?

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    • Re:I'm guessing matchstr is what you're after (Score:2)

      by wickline (135)

      > how did you learn Vim scripting?
      
      I'm not sure I'd say that I've learned it. When I started at Rentrak, they already had ,gi ,gt ,t and ,T. I just copy/paste/tweaked from there for the most part. Before I started at Rentrak, I'd primarily been a BBEdit user, with ten-year-rusty vi experience. Rentrak was the first place I used Vim.
      
      > Is there a decent tutorial out there or did you go through the docs
      
      There may well be a decent tutorial. If so, I never found it. Instead I spent way to much time banging m