Use global recursive from different functions in vimscript

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I want to use multiple globals in different functions in vimscript but I get the following error:

"Cannot do :global recursive"

To my problem: I have a config file with paths to multiple XML-files. I want to use a global for every path in the config file and a global for every tag in each XML-File.

So I have some thing like this:

global search-for-a-file-path call functionX(filepath)

functionX(filepath)

edit filepath

global search-for-tags call functionThatDoesStuff()

functionThatDoesStuff()

Stuff happens here...

Is there a possibility to make this work with globals or do I need to use a different approach?

P.S.: I already saw this Q&A but it did not help me because I use the globals in different functions and the solution only shows how it is done in a "one-liner".

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:24:33Z

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Vimscript does simply not seem to be able to do it, so I came up with the following solution:

while search("the-thing-I-search-for") > 0
   call functionThatDoesStuff()
end while

My thanks go to Martin for help on the matter.

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:24

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answered Jul 31, 2012 at 6:31

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