Re: Replace groups of dots by a tab

[David Turetsky]

Add a g at the end, otherwise it will only replace the first dot

— 
David

> On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Bernard Fay  wrote:
> 
> I have a file with a bunch of lines like the following one:
> 
> AAE ..Above Aerodrome Elevation
> 
> I would like to replace the dots by a single tab.
> 
> I tried the following substitutions but it does not work.
> %s/\.*/\t/
> %s/[\.]*/\t/
> 
> 
> vim keep seeing the dot in the s command as a wildcard even though it is 
> escaped.
> 
> Is there as way to do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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Re: Vim on the iPad

[David Turetsky]

On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:

 
 On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Benjamin Klein wrote:
 
 Eric: Yes, this seems to be about the only practical method (short of 
 jailbreaking) by which we currently can use Vim on an iPad: an external 
 keyboard for input and a remote server (something other than your actual 
 local filesystem) for the actual edited files. 
 
 If you are willing to jailbreak your device, though (and this *is* a bit of 
 a techie-ish thing to do, although I can say from my experience that some of 
 the more popular tools for this are becoming quite usable for 
 non-hacker-type users lately), a reasonable-sounding approach would be to do 
 something like what I now see David Sanson suggested way back in September — 
 use something like Prompt to ssh into localhost and use whatever vim is 
 available there. I guess a downside to that approach would be that you don’t 
 necessarily have a terribly-complete vim built in, but at that point you 
 would be in a position to compile a flavor of your own choosing, with all of 
 the generally-required dependencies. I have never yet had occasion to do 
 this myself do perhaps I should cease to advise you on how best to do it, 
 though. :}
 
 The last place of all to check in my opinion would be the iOS app. For me 
 anything short of a standard filesystem would simply be too clumsy to work 
 with, but worse than that, as of Nov. 14 this year it seems that the iOS app 
 does not even have Dropbox support, and the only mentioned means of getting 
 to your files is through iTunes File Sharing.
 
 So to summarize my rambling here:
 
 1. There isn’t yet a practical way of using standard “vim with filesystem” 
 on iOS *without either jailbreaking or ssh-ing into a remote server.* (If 
 there’s anyone on the list who knows of something available or being 
 developed to answer this problem, please point this out to me.)
 
 2. The provided iOS keyboard is no good for Vim, so you should use an 
 external keyboard of one form or another for maximum vimmability (whether a 
 keyboard case or an Apple wireless keyboard).
 
 Thanks, Benjamin. SSH-ing into local host is Greek to me at the moment. But 
 as I say so was Vim a couple years ago. Perhaps I'll consider it down the 
 road. A main use of the iPad for me will be simply reading and annotating 
 pdfs. Writing would be another one if I could get Vim running on it. And I 
 can't imagine Vim without my plugins and .vimrc configuration.
 
 The Android options described by Jeroen, especially the one that allows a 
 fully-functioning Vim, is appealing. 
 
 Couple of questions: Do Android tablets have a file system? [Or is that what 
 would be provided by Jeroen's third option, installing a Debian kit?] Is iOS 
 still a version of Uniix?
 
You can read and richly annotate PDF files under iOS using GoodReader

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David

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