Ralph Shumaker 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).
Ralph<br>
<br>
--------------------<br>
$
sig 1<br>
--anon<br>
%
sig 2<br>
--anon<br>
%
new sig
--anon
%
newer sig
--anon
%
newest sig
--anon
%
yet another sig
with a blank line in the middle
--anon
The command, when issued, should add <br> to the end of each of the
new sigs, but not to any of the lines that already end with <br> *nor*
to any of the lines containing only $ or %. The exceptions are making
it overly complex in my mind. I'm not terribly familiar with regex.
I use it infrequently.
One of the exceptions that could occur is a blank line in a sig (as now
noted above).
I'm thinking about creating a script file called sigs that will load
the sig file with vim. After I exit vim, the script will then use sed
to check for <br>$ and add them wherever needed.
TIA
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