[oclug]vim scripting

Bart Trojanowski bart-oclug at jukie.net
Thu Nov 21 12:12:47 EST 2002


* Bart Trojanowski <bart-oclug at jukie.net> [021121 12:04]:
> From within a bash script I need to ask vim for the current definition
> of the 'tags' variable.
> 
> So ideally I would want to do something like:
> 
> foo=$(vim -c '!echo $tags')
> 
> but I don't know how to get the vim variable passed to the ':! echo'
> command.

OK, I am getting closer...

:execute '!echo ' . v:tags

does almost what I want but it tells me that v:tags does not exist.  So
how do I use the 'set tags' variable from within a vim-script line?

B.

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