From: Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commenting out TeX-text line by line in V-mode
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:34:16 -0500
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
> > I thought there would be one command to achieve the same effect
> > instead of """doing it the wrong way""" first and the """correct
> > it""" by an additional command...
> >
> >
>
> Well, sure there is. Its Vim, isn't it?
...I hope so... ;O)
> How about
>
> :[range]g/\S/s/^/%/
>
> which means: over the selected range (which may be the visual range),
> on all lines that
> have some non-white-space character on them, insert a leading %.
Yeah, that's the kind of trick I was searching for!
On the other hand I have still some problems in reading (==
understanding), how this is working...
[range] ok, I understand that: "upper" and "lower" limit
g/ "global"...hrmmm...sometimes I think "g" is a
placeholder for: do something differently. As a
newbie I cannot predict what "g" does
in/for a certain
command. The only way for me is: simply
remember
every single meaning of "g"...
\S is for "non-whitespace character"
s/^/%/ "substitute the beginning of a line with %". This
is simple...
For me it is confusing, why we need three "commands" to describe,
where something has to be done:
First the range, than "global" (I cannot guess why we need "g" here
and why it would not work without "g" -- we only want _one_
substitution per line...) and at last \S for all non whitespace.
I myself -- based on my current knowledge -- would have never been
able to construct such a command on the base of logic.
Thank you very much for any enlightment in this case in advance !
"Its Vim, isn't it?"...yes NOW I am sure, it is VIM ;)
Keep editing!
mcc
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
