imap c-j c-oJ
then hitting ctrl-j in insert mode will be
like hitting shift-j in normal mode.
Suresh has the mapping idea correct, but just a small caveat
regarding the choice of c-j as your mapped key: control+J
is a line-feed...on some operating systems enter sends
control+M,
I am in the middle of line in insert mode and want to break out of the line
and start a new line (above or below)
What I want is effectively
ESCo or ESCO
But does Vim7 have a native command for this?
I cant imagine such a command being added in Vim7 in some
sort of native fashion, given
I would like to write a search and replace that only
operates on lines that are found in a separate search.
So, for example, lets say I want to replace all
occurrences of long with int but only on lines that
have the word key on them.
:g/key/s/long/int/g
That's
:g/ on every line that
:new|r foo.bat|1d|normal ayG|q!
So why does the q! get lost,
Well, the :normal command swallows everything after it, so
the pipe cue bang is interpreted as commands to execute in
normal mode. You can work around that either by using the
exec command:
1d|exec 'normal ayG' | q!
or
I am struggling with sed and gawk but I guess that it'd be possible to
employ vim in the command line (it's to make a script that will be
automatically launched every 24 hours) but I don't have any idea of
how to do it...
How could I select the blocks (see file ahead) of a text file (say
cat file | vim -
What stands the - for?
It is a standard *nix convention of accepting stdin as the
source for the file (in this case, the output of cat). That
way, we never actually bung with the original file. If you
don't care if it gets hosed in the process, you can just do
What if #if/#endif blocks are nested ?
Yakov is correct, that nested #if/#endif blocks would cause
trouble.
My first thought at a [100% untested] solution would be
something like
:g/^\s*#endif/norm dV%
which would find all of the #endif tokens and delete their
associated blocks,
Hi. My name is Marcelo I'm new in this list and in VIM.
Welcome!
My question is about one input to many lines and
columns in just one render (evaluation, returns ...) For
example, if i have a table of numbers and need add 10 for
the forth columns in the 420, 530 and 710 lines. Could
you
Thanks a lot Tim. You is right about what I meant. To make it more clear,
here are the rows.
.
.
i1 0 9 180 /*this is the 420 line number*/
.
i2 0 17.1 220 /*430*/
.
i3 + 7.875 365 /*710*/
the numbers in question are 180, 220 and 365.
No tested your code yet. I'll give a try tomorrow.
I want to remove the ^M on my WinXP machine and then copy
them over again to my linux machine.
This is the ever-popular line-break-delimiter problem.
If you do
:set ff?
Vim will likely currently come back with dos.
You should be able to solve it by executing
:set ff=unix
I wish Vim internally supported nul (00) line endings,
but alas.
You might be able to set up a before/after filter, much like
the gzip example (:help gzip-example), using tr, of the form
tr '\000\012' '\012\000'
This will swap all NUL characters in the file and 0x0A
(octal 012)
:s/start_of_visual_selection(.*)end_of_visual_selection/\/*\1\/*/
Any ideas?
My first thought would be
vnoremap f4 esc`i/* esc`a */esc
(all characters typed literally...note the back-ticks rather
than single-quote characters) which should work with both
line-wise and characterwise
AFAIK, Vim isn't able to tell what screen resolution you're using.
I did notice that my version of gvim running here on
Debian/Testing that gvim *somewhat* respects the usual X
-geom parameter. It seems that it handles the size
correctly, and positive positioning, but it seems to ignore
Is there a way to split a line automatically like awk would?
Given A quick brown fox jumped over ,
awk '{print $3}' ... == brown
Well, Vim supports passing a range of lines through awk, so
assuming you have awk available, you can just do
:%!awk '{print $3}'
Fairly
How can I open four files (eg: file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and
file4.txt) for a view as following:
VIM
¦file1 ¦file2 ¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ¦
¦
Thomas Barthel wrote:
I downloaded vim 7 last week and realized that there is a
new syntax file for vb. Long time ago (2002 or 2003) I
created an update myself. It is incomplete too, so I kept
it on my computer. Maybe the two files can be merged.
Thomas, I've merged your changes into the
In the years I've been on this list, I don't count the number
of times when newbies have come asking, in essence, Why
doesn't Vim behave as advertised? and mswin.vim (which they
unknowingly were sourcing in their vimrc) was the reason.
Or the converse, where someone will ask Why does vim behave
I don't really know how to do this but im sure that there's a
solution. I have some file and i need to insert a number
before each line and a separator. The number is the line
number. Is there any way in vim to do this easily?
Well, the canonical way to do this on *nix boxes is just
In my old VIM version (5.4) I could put the line set nu in
my .exrc file and have line numbers on the file I was editing.
Since I upgraded to VIM 7.0, I've discovered no option for the
.vimrc file to do the same thing. Have I missed something?
Putting the set nu in your vimrc *should* do
2) you've got some funky keyboard mapping at the console/GUI
level. This would evidence itself in other editors, so if
you pull up Nano or Emacs and rapidly type oun in the same
fashion as you do in Vim, you'd get other funky characters.
How to remedy this lies outside vim...you'd have to check
I get this:
#3
00
00
#4
11
10
#5
11
00
How I can put spaces between numbers in same rows?
Looks like you omitted spaces between the \2 and \3 and
between the \4 and \5 in Alan's solution (or my 2nd one that
broke out each piece individually) The final replacement should read
/#\1\r\2
:help motion.txt
and then you will be on your way to joining the ranks of vim experts.
Some of us are just rank ;)
But yes, Vim's multitude of ways for jumping around a document
quickly are one of the hallmarks of why folks who learn it well
seldom leave for another editor.
-tim
Then again, some might argue that Vim is about thinking before
making a calculated move..
Vim...the chess of editors :)
Vim is an artistic blend of the two. Basic stuff becomes second
nature so that it just comes flying out of the fingers. The more
complex stuff takes a moment of thought
I have never used a gvimrc. Does that get parsed by gVim only?
Yes.
You can learn more about it at
:help gvimrc
:help initialization
Note that, in the help on initialization, step #8 is Perform GUI
initializations. This links to the help on gvimrc.
-tim
I would like to to delete line from L1 to L2, I try to script
that but obviously commands are different for a script. What
is the right thing to do ?
Well, if L1 and L2 represent fixed line numbers, such as line 24
through line 38, you can just put
24,38d
in your script. Quick,
And how about deleting from line L1 for instance to the end of
the file. And put it in a script file, since G don't appear
like a regexp and $ represent end of line if I'm not wrong ?
$ represents the end-of-line in *normal* mode. As an Ex command,
it means the last line in the file. Thus,
Perhaps this is a simple question but i'm a bit confused.
If i mark several lines with shift+v and then use shift+i
to insert in front of the line, the text entered is just
placed in front of the first marked line. How can i easily
add text to all marked lines?
It sounds like you're trying
In the meantime I found a solution myself:
let s:lnr=line(.)
let s:image=getline(s:lnr)
while (strlen(s:image) != 0)
let s:lnr=s:lnr+1
let s:image=getline(s:lnr)
endwhile
I'm not that familiar with the global commands yet,
I would like to fold all lines not containing a keyword like
'warning'. Basically, I want to be able to open a file,
apply this filter and immediately see all warnings
related in my file.
:set foldmethod=expr
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~'warning'?'1':1
You can learn more by reading at
I would like to match all options that start with a hyphen like:
-one
-two
So all those would be a match from the - to the end of the word.
Looks like a simple
/\-\w\+\/
It makes some presumptions where your description falls silent.
What constitutes a word for you? The vim
In version 6.3 (and as far as I can remember in Vim versions) it would
return my cursor to the line I was at when I saved a file the next
time I opened that file.
It now returns me to the beginning of the file in Vim 7.
I looked at :help restore-position, but that doesn't do it by default.
The
I need to match lines using g// (not v//); those lines having
'foo' and NOT having /)\s*;/ anywhere in the line. How do I
write such regex.
Well, there are several ways to go about it. One would be to use
Dr. Chip's logipat script:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1290
I have this problem: a program of mine is giving me error positions
based on the file offset and not the line containing the error.
Eg. it does not warn me about an error on line 12, but at the char 2032
Is there any command in Vim to position to that char offset?
If the data is on one line,
Since I need to share text files I work on with people who use
notepad, how can I set vim to use windows line endings?
Vim is pretty smart about automatically identifying line endings.
If you get files from your coworkers, they should be in CR/LF
format, and Vim should recognize these. If
I have set fileformats=unix,dos at the bottom of my _vimrc,
but still see the ^M's.
My guess is that the file in question has one line that lacks a
^M in the line, and thus, it vim concludes that it must use
unix-style line-endings. The likely culprit is the last line in
the file.
You can
I don't know since when this happens. Now every time I open a file with vim, I get this error.
E576: viminfo: Missing '' in line: 5\awr_hang_state\masterdb1_ora_4834.trc
E576: viminfo: Missing '' in line: ^I^I71990^I10
This file does not exist on my pc any more, but I open any file it
Sorry I'm still pretty new to vim. Do you mean file
C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\syntax\viminfo.vim?
[cut]
Maybe I should mention I use vim on windows. Where is viminfo
file on windows?
That's the syntax-coloring definition for viminfo files, so when
you're editing viminfo files, they show up
What would be the quickest way of yanking one word and
replacing another word with it? Something that doesn't involve
specifying registers, because that would require too many
keystrokes and I might as well use cw and type the word myself
then.
You don't mention whether you only want to do this
By mistake I made a search for a character in a file in vim.
How do I stop the highlighting of that character everywhere in
the file?
There are several ways to do it, depending on what you want. If
you just want to not highlight this search, you can use
:noh
If you want to disable
So my question is, what is it about the command:
:g/^/+,/^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/-1! par 72q
Which causes this to happen? I've tried changing it but the
result is always the same.
This is a result of par [rightly, as it's a non-trivial task]
not knowing how to deal with shell-code.
As to why
I have to correct some datafiles, and I need to paste a column
in the middle of my text file to replace the older column
which contain bad values.
How can I do that ?
[cut]
Hope I have been clear enough,
Yes, that is fairly clear. Vim supports block-wise pasting.
However, last I checked
I don't know of a limit within normal uses (i.e. 100K or so). How
long is the text you are trying to yank?
I can't say I've hit any abnormal limits either, and I've
yanked/pasted some pretty long texts from log-file dumps.
If you need to read in a huge quantity of data, you can save that
I recently start using vim for writing tex files. I found that an
extra space is always added between lines after reformatting (e.g.,
gq}).
For example:
Original text:
a...b
c...d
d...e
Reformatted text:
a...b c...d d...e
Is there an option that I can override this behavior?
The short
What I would really like is to just do the ^N on the initial
_some_root, see that the popup menu shows the correct four
values, and press some key combo to insert them all on
consecutive lines like above. I'm not even fussy if it inserts
the case and the :, I can very easily do them myself with
I would like to add additional keywords if the first word or first 4
characters of the statement is snit.
snit::type dog {
method {tail wag} {} {return Wag, wag}
method {tail droop} {} {return Droop, droop}
}
Since snit is there then I would like to added method as a keyword.
Your
I'm curious though - is there any way to substitute CR with LF
using regexp's?
You could try the somewhat odd-looking
:%s/\r/\r/g
which has worked in some cases for me...
-tim
syn match tclV ttk\(\(::\)\?\([[:alnum:]_.]*::\)*\)\a[a-zA-Z0-9_.]*
I only want this to work ttk at the start. I know that ^ means the
start but I am not sure how to add that (I did try just adding it) to
make the regex start with ttk.
Just put it at the beginning:
^ttk...
just as
How is it possible, using GVIM, to forbid Windows executing commands
destinated to VIM?
e.g CTRL-V (Virtual select) is interpreted as Paste by MS. CTRL-A as
select all, ...
How can I disable this, and retrieve unix-like behaviour in my gvim ?
Likely your vimrc is directly or indirectly
The documentation says the 'diff' setting is local to window, so closing
the windows show cancel the setting out, but when I try the below
sequence on two related files say, x.old and x.new, it seems otherwise.
Vim seems to keep the 'diff' information around in the same way
it keeps marks in a
Not really a request for help, but I was wondering if you guys ever use
the 's' command.
It's just a shortcut for 'cl', which I almost never need. Since I don't
assume it was put in to be complete or something, I'm intrigued by it's
enigmatic purpose. :)
I'll admit that it took me a while
I would particularly want to use it with the 'c' command.
[cut]
I'm using c quite often. I wouldn't remap it ;)
I think the OP wants an (in vim nomenclature) operator pending
mode mapping, so that it can be used *with* the c command,
rather than *instead* of the c command.
I intend to use gvim mainly as a text editor.
Unlike Emacs, with which you can read email, wash the dishes, and
get psychological counsel... ;)
(1) Is there a way to have a soft border or offset on the
left, so that the text is not flush against the left window
border? I've searched for
how can I substitute a single word via regular expression?
:s/\(\s\+\)word\(\s\+\)/\1new_word\2/g
Alternatively, rather than saving your whitespace and then
restoring it, you can use
:s/\word1\/new_word/g
This respects the word boundaries in vim, as defined by the
'iskeyword'
:s/\word1\/new_word/g
But you need to know the word you want to substitute, if I set it to
cword and cword appears more than once in the line, multiple words
will get replaced.
Well, there are several scenarios, each of which vim can handle
with aplomb.
If you know the word, but
I want to remap Ctrl-A (normal mode) to do something similar
with other data, e.g.
:nmap c-a ciwc-r=IncRoman(@-)cresc
Now if a count is provided this will mess up the text, e.g.
10c-a does 10ciw...
What is a good way to catch the count and make it available to
the function call?
Well,
Why not just use C-U in the mapping (after the : ) to clear the
command line, then use v:count or v:count1 instead of the second
argument?
Because they're not in my active vimming vocabulary... :)
Yes, using v:count/v:count1 is a much cleaner more
understandable way to do it.
-tim
I want to make a mapping like this:
:inoremap foreach foreach() {CR}ESCk$3hi
The end result being that when I type:
foreach
I should get
foreach() {
}
Sounds more like you're reaching for an abbreviation rather than
a mapping.
:iab foreach foreach() {^M}^[O
where ^M is
1. Searches a directory for all files that end in the string Template
2. Return those file names to the user as chooseable list, similar to
the way that the spell checker functionality works when you use the z=
command.
Well, as an ugly first-pass hack:
:let s = expand(*template)
:echo
Well, as an ugly first-pass hack:
:let s = expand(*template)
:echo substitute(\n.s.\n,
'^\%([^[:cntrl:]]*[[:cntrl:]]\)\{'.(confirm('Which file?',
s)).'}\([^[:cntrl:]]*\).*', '\1', 'g')
Thanks a *ton* Tim! This looks very succinct (if not a bit
frightening). I'll definitely try this one out
:cabbrev e E
Now :e will change itself to :E when not followed by a
letter, but :edit will get you the old behaviour of the :e
command.
However, beware the funky behaviors that can ensue from this:
Trying to type something like
:echo the letter e is nice
will expand to
Is there a way to delete all buffers matching a certain pattern?
For example, suppose I just read in all files in a directory and this is
my buffer list:
1 a.txt
2 b.txt
3 1.exe
4 2.exe
5 c.txt
6 3.exe
7 d.txt
I want to do something like :bdelete *.exe.
The following seems to do the trick
:bufdo if bufname(%)=~?'.exe$' | bdel | endif
I think you want to escape the dot:
:bufdo if bufname(%) =~? '\.exe$' | bdel | endif
Oh, so correct. My error. It's one of those subtle things that
works just fine until it bites you in the bum when one has file
My file is like the following:
data_1.dat pre= -1908.77 post= -48977.33 diff= -448.947
data_2.dat pre= -444.333 post= -333.545 diff= -777.333
.
.
I hope to find out a regular expression subtitution commad to delete
everything after dat to get a file like:
data_1.dat
data_2.dat
.
.
I
Make sure 'ignorecase' is off:
:set noignorecase
:%s/\[a-z]\+\//g
If you don't want to bung with your vim-wide (or bufferwide)
settings, you can always just change your :s to include the I flag.
:%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI
Additionally, this will not find camel-case words, such as
I'm editing binary files with Vim using set display=uhex and
I was wondering if there's a way to insert characters given
their scancode. Something like what I used to do in DOS by
holding Alt then typing the number of the character to enter?
Sounds like you're looking for what's described at
:%s/\[a-z]\+\//gI
another option is to include \C in the regular expression itself:
:%s/\C\[a-z]\+\//g
One should be careful about this, as the help states:
:help /\C
Note that 'ignorecase', \c and \C are not
used for the character classes.
And when you
Careful, Tim: UTF-8 is unsuited to binary editing, because you
can't enter a byte 127 by itself in UTF-8.
True enough. I tend not to use UTF-8, so I defer to your far
greater experience/knowledge on the matter.
For doing binary editing in vim (a rare occurance, when I'm not
just using a
file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file
When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw',
a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the
end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list
of 'word separators'?
Well, the answer to your question is that there's a setting
How to put cursor in the middle of screen when replacing words? I have
to see the next few lines to know replace or not, but the word always
sit in the bottom of the screen.
Sounds like you're looking for the 'scrolloff' setting.
:help 'scrolloff'
will provide details on this. It
Is it possible to format a paragraph (i.e.
justify it) of text or comments while in insert
mode? The way I do it now is to visually
highlight the paragraph and then press g and
then q.
What I'd like is to be able to press Ctrl-q (or
something) to format the paragraph (and the
cursor left
I believe you can just do a gwap to leave the cursor in
the same position.
Thanks! Every day I learn something new.
A pretty amazing day when Tony Tim both learn the same
something new about Vim that's easy, useful, and has been
supported (mostly, save for a few bugfixes in later
How do I sort this file so that
- removes the lines starting with ###
:g/^###/d
- removes the lines starting with ---
:g/^---/d
- removes the lines starting with spaces
:g/^\s\+/d
- all line 18 , i.e., comes under each other? And line 19 , and so on.
:%!sort
(or, newer versions of
I normally run with lots of splits. Recently I started using
italics for various syntax highlighting (especially comments
and enum tag values). Since then I have noticed the ocassional
pixel remaining when I switch from one split to another.
Any ideas what I can do to fix this? I'm on Windows
With gv you can re-select the previous visual block. Is it
possible to give a horizontal shift with it? Like + or - 5?
Natively? Not as far as I know. However, if you haven't already
discovered the o command in block-wise-visual-mode, it does
bounce you to the opposite corner of the block.
I can't seem ot get the hang of it for this particular job.
Well, even as a regexp wonk, it's a bit of a daunting task you
have before you. :)
Most of
the problem is with dates, in that I have a mishmash of formats.
Since you don't mention any other problematic sections, I guess
I'll
right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the easiest
way I've found to simulate this.
[...]
(0 . submatch(1))[-2:]
Hmmm...a nifty new feature in vim7 that is here on my work
machine, but unavailable on my hosting service (still running
(0 . submatch(1))[-2:]
Hmmm...a nifty new feature in vim7 that is here on my work machine, but
unavailable on my hosting service (still running 6.3). Looks like a
much-needed pilfering from Python's handy slicing syntax. :)
well, then,
strpart(0 . submatch(1), strlen(submatch(1)) -
* autocomplete - say that I've declared a constant variable in Perl
named MY_CONSTANT, later, to have the editor fill it in, I type in
MY_, and some other key-stroke, and CONSTANT gets typed in for you
Well, I usually just use ^N and ^P in insert mode to cycle
through available completion
function! template(text)
Do something with the text and return the result
What I would like to do now is to be able to press a key let say F5 in
visual mode and the text that I have selected should be passed into the
text variable of the template function.
Is this possible? I
I forgot to ask one last thing - if I'm searching for something in a
text file, can I have vim select every existing string that matches
up to what I've typed at that point? Meaning, if the first two
characters of what I'm looking for are va, all va gets
highlighted as I type, then when I
:help incsearch
:help hls
Using 'incsearch' doesn't highlight them all as you type,
just the current match. However, with 'hls' set, once you
hit enter, it will highlight all the items it found...not
quite the behavior you described, but close.
Thanks Tim - is that to say that this
here is the regex: %s/)\s*\n\s*{\n/) {\n/ig
It runs through but my code is getting formatted like this now
if(asdf) { ^@ nextline_of_code _newline_
Vim uses various represenations at different points for nulls and
for newlines. Just change the \n in your replacement portion
to \r, making
something I find myself doing quite often is the above, i.e. I have:
extract(p,f,m,n)
and I want
extract(p, f, m, n)
Well, if you just want to normalize all commas on the current
line to have a single space after them, you could do something like
:s/,\s*/, /g
which can be mapped,
is it possible and
if true
yes. :)
then
how()
Well, by default, vim supports saving the contents of registers
via the viminfo file/settings
:help 'viminfo'
Since macros are recorded to registers, this would save any
macros you have, up to a given size (either in
Is there a way to dispaly the current cursor position? e.g,, character 23.
use
ga
which will display the hex/decimal/octal values of the character
under the cursor. I remember it as _g_et _a_scii [value]
:help ga
There's also g8 for a UTF-8 character under the cursor.
And then I decide that I want to remove $blah2, so I start to press
backspace from here:
fucntion foo() {
$blah;
$blah2; - cursor here
}
and then when I get to the beginning of the line, it stops. Can I make
it so that it will follow up to the end of $blah on the previous line?
is it also possible to enable the backspace key in normal mode --
the delete key is working in normal, so why should I miss the
backspace key ?
:nnoremap BS X
(all typed literally with greater-than and less-than signs included)
should do the trick.
-tim
:nnoremap BS X
with this I cannot cross lines (delete $ between line n+1 and line
n coming from line n+1 while backspacing and it is not possible to
delete the last (or in other words the first char after ^ ) char of a
line.
Something perhaps like
:nnoremap bs ibsrightesc
might do
How can I find help for ye/ye ?
:help ye
or
:help yE
gives me help for the year-2000 compliance which is not
directly what I wanted ...
That's kinda funny that it drops you in y2k information.
The trick to searching for them (and for that matter, grokking
vi/vim) is to understand that
To search the string say /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i in a file, is there a way to do
it without going to each / and escaping it to \/
:let @/ = escape('string with /slashes/, \backslashes\, .periods.,
*asterisks* etc.', '/\.*')
n
Building on Tony's good suggestion...it's a good one, and
In the second variant you don't use a search command (like / ? or :s)
but an arithmetic evaluation command. Then n does search, but _it_
doesn't change the latest search pattern. Don't know if the fact that
:let @/ doesn't alter search history must be regarded as a bug, a
feature, or a legacy
I've been using a form of this, enhancing it over time.
Here is my current version:
This command was posted by Piet Delport a few years ago.
com DiffOrig vert new | se bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | difft | winc p | difft
[cut]
com! DT sil on! | let oft = ft | vert bel new
[remainder of mappings
I'm trying to do a regexp replacement. My original line is
ignore MATCH1 ignore_again MATCH2
I want to match MATCH1 and MATCH2, so here's my trial:
s/^ignore \(.*\{-}\) .*\{-} \(.*\)/matched:\1,\2/gc
You're s close. :) The \{-} is a *replacement* for the
asterisk operator, not a
But, Anthony -- you get paid the top salary available for Vim mailing
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Of course, it's probably a bit difficult to buy a cup of coffee with it...
And you're both still making twice my vim mailing-list salary! :)
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1. within each block, add the sort keys in front of each
line (surname, personal name, line number), plus maybe a
delimiter to make step 3 (below) easier.
2. sort
3. remove the sort keys added in step 1
Do I understand your suggestion is to tweak the file to look
like
Chapter 1: Green Floyd
and want to get
Chapter 1: Green Floyd...
so s/he needs to insert
70 - Chapter 1: Green Floyd.length() // ruby notation
characters. Or in other words s/he needs to insert characters til
column 70.
:%s/^\(Chapter\ [0-9]\+:\ .*\)\%30c$/\1\./g
I works fine, but needs to be repeated until no more matches are found.
I'm sure you guys more experencied with Vim scripting will be able to
complete my idea.
Well, if you're looking to make the change on every line that
matches that pattern, you
The Chapter*-thingy was only meant as an example. The task I want to
do is: repeat overwriting (or may be inserting) charcters with a
previously given character starting from the current cursor position
until a perviously given number of the end-column is reached.
This sounds an awful lot like
I was going to use a simple regex replacement like::%s/\(.\{8}\)\
(.\{2}\)\(.\{3}\)/\1,\2,\3,/g This does work when only replacing
a small number of fields. I get 2 errors when I source a file with
the command for all 35 fields. The errors are:
E51: Too many \(
E476: Invalid
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