On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > A two-liner is > > > %s/^/<p>/ - add <p> to the start of each line > > > %s/^<p>$// - remove any lines that contain only <p> > > > > nope won't work. it'll put a '<p> ' at the beginning of every line which > > has text in it. thus this: > > Ah. Don't know how to do that with regex's but you can get it > done with record/playback with Vim and Elvis. You probably > already know this. > > qa - start recording to register a > /^$ - go to first blank line > <cursor down> > <i>nsert and type <P> > <esc> > q - stop recording > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - repeats the recorded keystrokes a bunch of times > > If you have multiple adjacent blank lines you'll need to > squash them to one, > :g/^$/,/./-j > > Gotta be an easier way though. Maybe one of the vi pros will drop in. > > Rick > --
I'm no pro, but the following, without squashing works. And yes, I know that at the end of the file it might give an error. :g/^ *$/+1 s/^ *[^ ]/<p>&/ John
