Or you could skip step one, and only add percent signs on the lines
with anything in them:
(select lines visually)
:'<,'>s/^\(.\)/% \1
-Dmitriy
On 11/15/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a question more driven by curiosity than by the need to change
> anything.
>
>
> Suppose you have the following TeX-text:
>
> bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> foo bar gnu gnats
> bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
>
> bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> foo bar gnu gnats
>
> bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
>
>
> and because this text is so fullfilled with wisdom and knowledge,
> that no one else than you will be able to handle its contents
> carefully ;) you decide to comment it out to not to harm the public.
> As a vim newbie I would do that using block oriented visual mode on
> the first line and I-nserting a '%' (TeX's comment sign), which
> results in:
>
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> % foo bar gnu gnats
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
> %
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> % foo bar gnu gnats
> %
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
>
>
> So far so nice...it works.
>
> But would be there a way to acchieve the following commenting:
>
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> % foo bar gnu gnats
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
>
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats bla blabla
> % foo bar gnu gnats
>
> % bla blabla foo bar gnu gnats
>
> (blank lines not commented out) by a similiar simple command like
> CTRL-v SHIFT-i <text><ESC> ?
>
> As said: This Q is mostly curiosity - based...I even dont know,
> whether haveing such a feature would be really useful or not.
>
> But as always: Experimenting is fun! :O)
>
> Keep editing!
> mcc
>
>
1. Add all percent signs like you did above, even before blank lines.
2. Replace empty comments by blank (i.e. empty) lines as follows:
:%s/^%\s*$//
Best regards,
Tony.
