rotation
Does anyone know if there are any builtin commands to rotate the current line about a character or word? Example: rotate about the j and just respectively 'This is just a test ' becomes 'ust a testj This is' 'This is just a test' becomes 'a test just This is' I know it would be pretty easy to do these with macros, but I thought there might be some builtin or something. Thanks! -- -fREW
Re: rotation
fREW wrote: Does anyone know if there are any builtin commands to rotate the current line about a character or word? Example: rotate about the j and just respectively 'This is just a test ' becomes 'ust a testj This is' 'This is just a test' becomes 'a test just This is' I know it would be pretty easy to do these with macros, but I thought there might be some builtin or something. Thanks! 1) :s/\(^.*\)\(j\)\(.*$\)/\3\2\1 actually it will give ust a testjThis is . 2) :s/\(^.*\)\( just \)\(.*$\)/\3\2\1 see :help /\( (Note: Without a range, :s defaults to the current line.) Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 96. On Super Bowl Sunday, you followed the score by going to the Yahoo main page instead of turning on the TV.
Re: rotation
Does anyone know if there are any builtin commands to rotate
the current line about a character or word?
I know it would be pretty easy to do these with macros, but I
thought there might be some builtin or something.
There's nothing built-in, but you can map something of the like:
rotate about the j and just respectively
'This is just a test ' becomes 'ust a testj This is'
According to your description of what rotating should do,
rotating around the j in this example would yield
'ust a test jThis is '
rather than
'ust a testj This is'
but can be done with
:nnoremap gw :s/^\(.*\)\%#\(.\)\(.*\)$/\3[\2]\1cr
'This is just a test' becomes 'a test just This is'
This can be done with:
:nnoremap gW :s/^\(.\{-}\)\(\s*\\w*\%#\w*\s*\)\(.*\)$/\3\2\1cr
Though somewhat funky things happen if you're in whitespace
rather than over Word characters.
I don't recall if the \%# was added in Vim7 or if it works in
prior versions. YMMV.
HTH,
-tim
Re: rotation
Cool! Thanks Tim and A.J.
And yeah, sorry about the typo with 'ust a test jThis is ', I meant
to include that space.
And I use Vim7 so I can use any extensions that may have been added then.
Thanks again!
-fREW
On 3/7/07, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any builtin commands to rotate
the current line about a character or word?
I know it would be pretty easy to do these with macros, but I
thought there might be some builtin or something.
There's nothing built-in, but you can map something of the like:
rotate about the j and just respectively
'This is just a test ' becomes 'ust a testj This is'
According to your description of what rotating should do,
rotating around the j in this example would yield
'ust a test jThis is '
rather than
'ust a testj This is'
but can be done with
:nnoremap gw :s/^\(.*\)\%#\(.\)\(.*\)$/\3[\2]\1cr
'This is just a test' becomes 'a test just This is'
This can be done with:
:nnoremap gW :s/^\(.\{-}\)\(\s*\\w*\%#\w*\s*\)\(.*\)$/\3\2\1cr
Though somewhat funky things happen if you're in whitespace
rather than over Word characters.
I don't recall if the \%# was added in Vim7 or if it works in
prior versions. YMMV.
HTH,
-tim
