commit 3f905ab3c4f66562f4a224bf00f49d98a0b0da91
author Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com> Wed Feb 21 00:02:45 2024 +0100
committer Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Wed Feb 21 00:02:45 2024 +0100
tree af43d2032e101b700ec3c9ac6f9bb318f256c310
parent f865895c874b0936b0563ebfef7490aac8cb8a1f

patch 9.1.0120: hard to get visual region using Vim script

Problem:  hard to get visual region using Vim script
Solution: Add getregion() Vim script function
          (Shougo Matsushita, Jakub Łuczyński)

closes: #13998
closes: #11579

Co-authored-by: =?UTF-8?q?Jakub=20=C5=81uczy=C5=84ski?= <doubleloop@o2.pl>
Co-authored-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>

src/testdir/test_vim9_builtin.vim

diff --git a/src/testdir/test_vim9_builtin.vim b/src/testdir/test_vim9_builtin.vim
index aa81981..e2585d4 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_vim9_builtin.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_vim9_builtin.vim
@@ -5197,4 +5197,13 @@
   v9.CheckScriptFailure(lines, 'E1405: Class "C" cannot be used as a value')
 enddef
 
+def Test_getregion()
+  assert_equal(['x'], getregion('.', '.', 'v')->map((_, _) => 'x'))
+
+  v9.CheckDefAndScriptFailure(['getregion(10, ".", "v")'], ['E1013: Argument 1: type mismatch, expected string but got number', 'E1174: String required for argument 1'])
+  assert_equal([''], getregion('.', '.', 'v'))
+  v9.CheckDefExecFailure(['getregion("a", ".", "v")'], 'E1209:')
+  v9.CheckDefExecAndScriptFailure(['getregion("", ".", "v")'], 'E1209: Invalid value for a line number')
+enddef
+
 " vim: ts=8 sw=2 sts=2 expandtab tw=80 fdm=marker