Thursday, 29 October 2009
Editing the File name you Save or Write to (2)
Remember you can recall the file name with Control-R %
You can then edit the file name freely
Vim supports wild cards as long as only ONE file matches eg
:r ../*/ref.c
:e long*file*name.h
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Write/Save a File to a Changed Name
:sav main.php : Save current file as main.php and "move" to main.php
:sav! %<.bak : Save Current file to alternative extension (old way)
:sav! %:r.cfm : Save Current file to alternative extension
:w %:r.cfm : write Current file to alternative extension
:sav %:s/fred/joe/ : do a substitute on file name
:sav %:s/fred/joe/:r.bak2 : do a substitute on file name & ext.
:!mv % %:r.bak : rename current file (DOS use Rename or DEL)
Monday, 5 October 2009
Join Pairs of Lines
Compress every other line
Bob
Jones
Mary
Quite-contrary
:g//,//j
Bob Jones
Mary Quite-contrary
Now if there are empty lines eg
Bob
Jones
Mary
Quite-contrary
use
:g/./,/./j
or slightly tighter
:g/\w/,/\w/j
and to limit it to a range of lines (between markers a and b)
:'a,'bg/\w/,/\w/j
Tip from James Church
Bob
Jones
Mary
Quite-contrary
:g//,//j
Bob Jones
Mary Quite-contrary
Now if there are empty lines eg
Bob
Jones
Mary
Quite-contrary
use
:g/./,/./j
or slightly tighter
:g/\w/,/\w/j
and to limit it to a range of lines (between markers a and b)
:'a,'bg/\w/,/\w/j
Tip from James Church
Labels: join lines
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