Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 2:40 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 1:58 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know the vim command :%s///gc to replace throughout the file, with
verification, including multiple occurrences on individual lines. But
I'm not quite sure how to go about what I want.
I want to issue the command such that any lines that are not ^$$
(BOL$EOL) or ^%$ will get <br> appended *unless* the line already ends
<br>$ (<br>EOL).
I think I understand that sometimes when you write "$" you mean the
dollar-sign character and other times you mean the symbolic
representation of End-Of-Line. But it is not completely clear.
I was afraid it may have been confusing to anyone but me. That's why I
gave the example of the file contents.
Perhaps the command you are looking for is "g!" global exclude.
:%g!/pattern/action # perform action on all lines not
matching pattern
# action can include another
substitution match
# and other specifications
like g)lobal and c)onfirm
:%g!/pattern/s/pattern2/new thing/gc
Wow another vim capability I never encountered.
Now, I wonder if there is any way to get more occurrences of the adj/adv
"global" into a vim command. This one has 3 does it not?
There are only two. The first g is "global within the specified
range", the second one is "global within the line". Vi/Ex have been
like this since forever. Actually I find this usage in 6th Edition
Unix ed(I) dated 1973. So blame it on Ken Thompson not Bill Joy.
Well, OK the "%" also states that the specified range is the whole file.
carl
I had to fuss with it a little, but ended up with:
:%g!/<br>$\|^[$%]$/s/$/<br>/gc
That worked perfectly. And with command history, I don't even have to
re-type it.
What I tried first was:
:%g!/<br>$/g!/^[$%]$/s/$/<br>/gc
Apparently, you can't use the g! twice (or I didn't format it right).
Thanks carl
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