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Use a user defined vim command inside another user defined vim command

I am trying to have to custom commands in vim as follows: The first command just runs a bash script. this works fine on its own.

:command Build :!./build-linux.sh

Now I want to use this command in another such as this:

:command BuildAndDebug :Build | :call vimspector#Launch()

This command is supposed to run the bash script and then launch a debugger. When I try to do this, I get this error back:

E488: Trailing characters: :Build | :call vimspector#Launch()

I can't seem to find the trailing characters here. I suspect the :Build is the cause of this because it does not know where the command ends. However I can't seem to get it to work at all.

Solution

  • You need to add the -bar attribute to your command definition if you want to be able to "chain" other commands after it with |:

    :command -bar Build :!./build-linux.sh

    This is described in chapter 40 of the user manual: :help usr_40, and documented under :help :command-bar.