Re: break very long line into short one with one g-command

2006-10-03 Thread Tim Chase
I have a line from about 40.000 characters. I want to break this up into lines which are 80 charactes long. In a previous thread, a few months ago this was possible with one g-command. I did use it then also, but can't recall it anymore. I presume you must be misremembering g. I've done it

Re: break very long line into short one with one g-command

2006-10-03 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Eric Leenman wrote: Hi, I have a line from about 40.000 characters. I want to break this up into lines which are 80 charactes long. In a previous thread, a few months ago this was possible with one g-command. I did use it then also, but can't recall it anymore. Thanks, Kind regards, Eric

Re: break very long line into short one with one g-command

2006-10-03 Thread Eric Leenman
Hi Tim, I might be mistaking, yes. The line contains a codes like: X200, X040, X200, X040, X3FF, X000, X000, X2AC, Breaking the line after a , would be fine. Rgds, Eric [...] I presume you must be misremembering g. I've done it with :s before: :%s/.\{80\}/\r/g It's a little

RE: break very long line into short one with one g-command

2006-10-03 Thread Suresh Govindachar
I have a line from about 40.000 characters. I want to break this up into lines which are 80 charactes long. In a previous thread, a few months ago this was possible with one g-command. I did use it then also, but can't recall it anymore. I presume you must be

Re: break very long line into short one with one g-command

2006-10-03 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Suresh Govindachar wrote: I have a line from about 40.000 characters. I want to break this up into lines which are 80 charactes long. In a previous thread, a few months ago this was possible with one g-command. I did use it then also, but can't recall it anymore. I