> when I run it I end up with an empty file... ? Well, you should be able to trace through it by entering each of the commands individually instead of sourcing the file to see where things are going funky. Places matters could go awry:
I solved it like this: :1,/received/d :$?^\s*For subscribe options?,$d :let @a='' :g/hole\|relativistic\|LISA\|black\|supermassive\|intermediate/?^\s*astro-ph?,/^\s*astro-ph/-y A :%d :put a :1d :%s!^\s*astro-ph/\(\d\+\)!<a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/\1";>&</a> :w! /tmp/2.html :q and using the cat /tmp/1.html | vim -s foo_arXiv.vim -
Well, we all have our peculiar areas of specialty. When it comes to things like plugins, syntax-highlighting nuances, i18n/encoding stuff, and indentation, I leave that to the folks on the list that are far more well-versed than myself. I'm more of an "ex" & regexp sorta guy, doing some crazy stuff there, but otherwise, just using pretty stock unadorned vim.
I guess I am one of the syntax-highlighting guys... Now, as you can see, I am trying to generate an html out of the result ... the idea is to create not a web page but an htmlized file to include it later into a "real" web page... The problem is that I have to tell vim to convert the end of line and empty spaces into <br>, and I do it like this: :1,/received/d :$?^\s*For subscribe options?,$d :let @a='' :g/hole\|relativistic\|LISA\|black\|supermassive\|intermediate/?^\s*astro-ph?,/^\s*astro-ph/-y A :%d :put a :1d :%s!^\s*astro-ph/\(\d\+\)!<a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/\1";>&</a> :%s!/^./<br>/ :%s!/^$/<br>/ :w! /tmp/2.html :q But it doesn't work... In case you are interested in what I am doing, try this: ------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/env zsh links -dump http://lanl.arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new | sed 's/\[abs, ps, pdf, other\]//' | sed 's/Title:/\<b\>Title\<\/b\>/g'| sed 's/Authors:/\<b\>Autors\<\/b\>/g' > /tmp/1.html && cat /tmp/1.html | vim -s ~pau/bin/foo_arXiv.vim - ------------------------------------------------ where foo_arXiv.vim is posted above And, btw, if you also tell me how to make vim embed the resulting file into a determined position of the real web page (let's call it real_web.html) , I will be more than grateful!! Pau
-tim
