> Does anyone know if there are any builtin commands to rotate
> the current line about a character or word?
>
> I know it would be pretty easy to do these with macros, but I
> thought there might be some builtin or something.
There's nothing built-in, but you can map something of the like:
> rotate about the j and just respectively
> 'This is just a test ' becomes 'ust a testj This is'
According to your description of what "rotating" should do,
rotating around the "j" in this example would yield
'ust a test jThis is '
rather than
'ust a testj This is'
but can be done with
:nnoremap gw :s/^\(.*\)\%#\(.\)\(.*\)$/\3[\2]\1<cr>
> 'This is just a test' becomes 'a test just This is'
This can be done with:
:nnoremap gW :s/^\(.\{-}\)\(\s*\<\w*\%#\w*\s*\)\(.*\)$/\3\2\1<cr>
Though somewhat funky things happen if you're in whitespace
rather than over Word characters.
I don't recall if the "\%#" was added in Vim7 or if it works in
prior versions. YMMV.
HTH,
-tim
