Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-30 Thread Tim Chase
On 2020-06-30 18:33, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 03:34:03PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote: >> Try changing that line from >> >> $?^$?+,$g/^\[\@!.*\n\[\@!/,/\n\[\|\%$/j >> >> to >> >> $?^$?+,$g/^\[\@!.*\n\[\@!./,/\n\[\|\%$/j > > This indeed fixes the problem. Great! > Still

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 03:34:03PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote: > Try changing that line from > > $?^$?+,$g/^\[\@!.*\n\[\@!/,/\n\[\|\%$/j > > to > > $?^$?+,$g/^\[\@!.*\n\[\@!./,/\n\[\|\%$/j This indeed fixes the problem. Still trying to wrap my head around this bizarre

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-29 Thread Tim Chase
[sorry for the belated reply.] On 2020-06-27 22:46, Chris Jones wrote: > Not sure if it's some kind of corner case or this little > experimented has unearthed a bug in Vim's regex logic... Not a bug in the regex parser. See further diagnosis: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:40:38PM EDT, Tim

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:40:38PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote: > > function! Unfootnote() > " make all the footnotes on one line > $?^$?+,$g/^\[\@!.*\n\[\@!/,/\n\[\|\%$/j > " gather the footnotes into b:a > let b:a={} > $?^$?,$g/\[\d\+\]/let b:a[getline('.')]=getline(line(".")+1)

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:40:38PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote: Sorry for the delay... needed time for this to sink in (and test) > In this case because each of the commands involves the :g command, it > becomes a bit trickier. I'd likely define a function something like > > function! Unfootnote()

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-22 Thread Tim Chase
On 2020-06-22 20:16, Chris Jones wrote: > Congrats! Works out of the box and does exactly what I had in mind Great! > copy-pasted the commands and the result is spectacular. The clever > idea is to use the :g(lobal) command to build the array. I do love the power of the :g command and abuse it

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
Congrats! Works out of the box and does exactly what I had in mind: copy-pasted the commands and the result is spectacular. The clever idea is to use the :g(lobal) command to build the array. I posted a little too fast and left out an important third³ footnote at the bottom of my message...

Re: An interesting little poser [PS]

2020-06-21 Thread Tim Chase
On 2020-06-21 18:57, Tim Chase wrote: > To build this associative array, you might try > > :$?^$?,$g/\[\d\+\]/let b:a[getline('.')]=getline(line(".")+1) Whoops, before you do this, you might have to let vim know that b:a is an array: :let b:a={} :$?^$?,$g/\[\d\+\]/let