Jussi I tried various ways but it seems the only way to insert a line from a script is to use the append() function (do help append) specifying the line number as a parameter. I tried it on with an example script "moo.vim" as shown below flapeccino at T4410 ~ $ cat moo.vim :1,$s/ /,/g :call append(0,"This is the first line") :call append(line('$'),"This is the last line") :w foox :q! flapeccino at T4410 ~ $ cat foo one two three four 1 2 3 4 ichi ni san shi flapeccino at T4410 ~ $ vi -s moo.vim foo flapeccino at T4410 ~ $ cat foox This is the first line one,two,three,four 1,2,3,4 ichi,ni,san,shi This is the last line flapeccino at T4410 ~ BTW thank you for this, I have been using vi for a very long time, and I never realized until now that at least in its vim incarnation it has such a powerful scripting language. I've used sed/awk/perl but never happily and always felt an inferiority complex to the emac brethrens showing off with their emac lisp macros. It must be a deficiency but my fingers never could do emacs. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>wrote: > On 6/10/2011 1:03 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > On 10.6.2011 18.39, flapeccino at gmail.com wrote: > >> There is a good article on vimscript here: > >> > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vimscript-1/index.html) > > > > Sorry there was a typo, the correct URL is: > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html > > > > Thanks, I found that already, and it is a good one. But it didn't help > > me solve my problem about cursor motions. > > > > Maybe my question is wrong - maybe I should just use line ranges in > > commands, for example for the first line: > > :1,1s/foo/bar/g > > and for the last line: > > :$,$s/foo/bar/g > > I thought the point of using vim instead of something more appropriate > for scripting was that you already knew how to use it. Why not do: > vim -W script testfile > and go through the motions you know (which can include 1G to go to the > 1st line and G to go to the last). > Then run > vim -s script realfile > to do the same actions again. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110610/e1bc785f/attachment-0004.html>