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Select line not selecting whitespace
Is there a way to select (or paste) text without trailing/ending whitespace?
eg. To copy the whole line I press y, to paste it somewhere else I use p,
but it pastes the whole text with the trailing ...
1
vote
1answer
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Replaced matched text in Vim with pattern
Here's a minimal example of what I'm trying to do. Start with:
"this")
"that")
[hundreds of lines like this]
End with:
"this",&this;)
"that",&that;)
[hundreds of lines like this]
I have gotten this ...
7
votes
1answer
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Vim: Making XML text “pretty”
Is there an easy way within vi to make your XML text "pretty"?
For example:
I want this..
<person>
<name>Nick</name>
<age>26</age>
...
3
votes
2answers
115 views
How to add a line in many files
I have many .html files and I need to add a meta tag after <head>'s start tag in each file.
How I can do that?
Can vim help me?
1
vote
1answer
263 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
63 views
!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 ...
9
votes
4answers
253 views
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 ...
3
votes
2answers
523 views
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 ...
2
votes
4answers
2k views
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 done with vim or ...
3
votes
2answers
767 views
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 ...
