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Multiply certain numbers in a text -file by certain constant

I want an alternative solution to this jQuery hack, tasting a bit reinventing the wheel -- look I am sure I could do this with some one-liner using basic *ix tools. Look much easier and ...
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!fmt for current line only

When I want to format part of text with fmt in vim I usually select parts of interesting lines in Visual Mode, with: Ctrl+V Arrows, and than type !+f+m+t. When there are couple of lines they are ...
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Delete whitespace for a set of lines in Vim editor

I have some text like the following in a file: sample text some random text even more random text text with no indent worst indention I need to delete the empty space before each ...
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How to do a text replacement in a big folder hierarchy?

I want to search and replace some text in a large set of files excluding some instances. For each line, I want a prompt asking me if I need to replace that line or not. Something similar to vim's ...
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How can I find and replace with a new line?

I have a CSV delimited by commas and I want to delimit it by newlines instead. Input: a, b, c Output: a b c I've written Java parsers that do this stuff, but couldn't this be be done with vim ...
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vim - but with scrolling, clickable text, and copy-paste

I like vim. I think touching mice is dirty. But sometimes when my hand is already on a mouse, it sure would be nice to be able to scroll the text or click a location in the text and have the cursor ...