Auto-detect comments

[bestouff]

Hi,

I have a CSV file like this:

# comment 1
# comment 2
col1;col2;col3
data1;data2;data3
data1;data2;data3

Would it be possible to have the comment somehow auto-detected ? Or at least a command to inform the plugin that # is a start-of-comment ?

[chrisbra]

How should the plugin detect comments automatically? It uses the &commentstring option currently to do so. I am not sure, what better ways it could use.

[bestouff]

I thought maybe if all lines that don't contain the column separator start with the same character, this is the start-of-comment ?

Anyway I tried :set commentstring="#%s" but that didn't seem to change anything - at least the syntax highlighting didn't change. So I wasn't sure if comments are handled by csv.vim.

[chrisbra]

Anyway I tried :set commentstring="#%s" but that didn't seem to change anything - at least the syntax highlighting didn't change. So I wasn't sure if comments are handled by csv.vim.

You need to re-init the plugin. Run CSVInit after changing the comment character.

[bestouff]

Well, this results in:

Error detected while processing function <SNR>249_CheckSaneSearchPattern:
line   37:
E684: list index out of range: 0

and then when pressing a cursor key:

Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[6]..csv#MaxColumns:
line   12:
E684: list index out of range: 0
E116: Invalid arguments for function escape(b:csv_cmt[0], '\\')
line   13:
E121: Undefined variable: pat
Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[9]..CSVWidth[21]..csv#CalculateColumnWidth[11]..csv#MaxColumns:
line   12:
E684: list index out of range: 0
E116: Invalid arguments for function escape(b:csv_cmt[0], '\\')
Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[9]..CSVWidth:
line   21:
E171: Missing :endif
Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol:
line    9:
E171: Missing :endif

[chrisbra]

Hmm missing space I believe in the commentstring option. Will fix it tomorrow.

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Am 09.03.2020 um 21:55 schrieb Xavier Bestel ***@***.***>:  Well, this results in: Error detected while processing function <SNR>249_CheckSaneSearchPattern: line 37: E684: list index out of range: 0 and then when pressing a cursor key: Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[6]..csv#MaxColumns: line 12: E684: list index out of range: 0 E116: Invalid arguments for function escape(b:csv_cmt[0], '\\') line 13: E121: Undefined variable: pat Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[9]..CSVWidth[21]..csv#CalculateColumnWidth[11]..csv#MaxColumns: line 12: E684: list index out of range: 0 E116: Invalid arguments for function escape(b:csv_cmt[0], '\\') Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol[9]..CSVWidth: line 21: E171: Missing :endif Error detected while processing function csv#MoveCol: line 9: E171: Missing :endif — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[chrisbra]

:set commentstring="#%s"

That obviously needs to be :set commentstring=#%s, note the missing ", which Vim sees as comments and hence the errors in the csv#MaxColumns functions.

Error detected while processing function 249_CheckSaneSearchPattern:
line 37:
E684: list index out of range: 0

That looks wrong. Please show the output of the following commands:

 :redir => a |sil filetype | redir end
 :echo a

Also, what Vim version is this?

[bestouff]

filetype detection:ON plugin:ON indent:ON

I'm using spacevim with

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