Open Source Software Scripting in Vim | Linux Today

Open Source Software Scripting in Vim

Written By
JK
Juliet Kemp
Aug 10, 2010

“I’ve been using the open source editor Vim for an alarming
number of years now, but I only very recently encountered its
scripting capabilities. Here I’ll look at writing a quick script in
Vim’s built-in scripting language. You can also use another
scripting language if you prefer.

“Vimscript is function-based. Here’s an example of a function to
put in your ~/.vimrc that puts a single text underline (a row of
dashes) under the current line. Note that function names must start
with a capital letter to distinguish them from built-in
functions.”


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Juliet Kemp

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