The right way to do global operatot in visually selected block?

2011-03-13 Thread Yosi Izaq
Hi, As per subject. For instance, how to delete all lines containing pattern X from visual block. I know how to do substitute (use %V or range) and after a short trial error to apply ed commands (like d or m) I came up with ','g/X/d Is this the correct way or am I working too hard?

Re: The right way to do global operatot in visually selected block?

2011-03-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 03/13/2011 06:05 AM, Yosi Izaq wrote: ','g/X/d Is this the correct way or am I working too hard? This is what I do, and I can't think of any more concise way to write this -- when you're in visual mode and press the :, vim automatically feeds the visual range so all you have to type (in