What is the NOP code for vimscript?
VimScript interpreter ignores colons and spaces, so : could be qualified as "nop" command. For example, echo 'foo' | : is the same as just echo 'foo'.
However, there's a problem: due to Vi compatibility :| is forcefully parsed as :print, so echo 'foo' | : | echo 'bar' surprisingly transforms into echo 'foo' | print | echo 'bar'.
To deal with this one can create a user-defined command, e.g.
command! -bar Nop :
Now this works: echo 'foo' | Nop | echo 'bar'
According to the url provided:
The simplest possible statement in C that behaves like a NOP is the so-called null statement, which is just a semi-colon in a context requiring a statement. (A compiler is not required to generate a NOP instruction in this case; typically, no instructions whatsoever would be generated.)
;
Alternatively, an empty block (compound statement) may be used, and may be more legible:
{}
What about "empty command" :
func! Test()
:
endfunc
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Typo? You mean
:, right? I know that:works for Bash...yet it didn't occur to me for Vim. It should have because it seems ideal. Why wrap it, though? Is there any advantage? Just for clarity/readability? – B Layer Feb 11 at 8:17
