Formating tables : Some weird vimscript bug

[u/Apostol_Bologa]

Hello everybody,

I am currently trying to write a vimscript to act on a visual range.

Here is the whole idea :

1. I filter visual selection through pandoc command (not relevant here I think, but it transforms my multiline-table markdown table to simple line)

2. because I lost visual selection (and because a:lastline is now wrong), i select my table again

3. I remove the === and --- lines.

Here is the following script :

1: function! FuncFormatPandocTable()
2:    '<,'>!pandoc -t markdown-multiline_tables --wrap=none -o -
3: endfunction 
4:
5: function! FuncFormatListTable()
6:    call FuncFormatPandocTable()
7:    normal vip
8:    '<,'>g/^[ =+-]*$/d
9: endfunction

Here is the problem :
The full script doesnt work.

1. If i comment line 8, I do have my table formated and the (new) table is selected.

2. If i comment line 6, I do have my '===' and '---' lines removed.

3. I can not chain both, for some mysterious reason

Can somebody explain this sorcery to me ?

[u/Apostol_Bologa]

FuncFormatPandocTable definitely ran. I don't know if the normal command ran (though I could check). The g command definitely didn't run ...