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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Friday August 11, 2006
02:11 PM

How do I fix this bad vim mapping?

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OK, this is not behavior I was expecting. Sometimes I'll post code in places where I don't have code or ecode tags, so I need to manually encode the '&', '<' and '>' symbols. That gets very annoying, particularly since I often find myself encoding the ampersand last, screwing up the other encodings and having to redo it. I figured that a simple vim mapping would do this:

noremap ,e  :%s/&/\&amp;/g | %s/>/\&gt;/g |%s/</\&lt;/g<cr>

However, that fails because as soon as I source my .vimrc, it rus the second and third subtitutions! So I tried again:

noremap ,e :exe '%s/&/\&amp;/g | %s/>/\&gt;/g |%s/</\&lt;/g'<cr>

That does the same thing. What gives? Am I going to have to write a function for this?


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  • 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 'c

    • 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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