On Mo, 03 Nov 2014, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Nevertheless, in some cases it could still be useful. E.g. specifying > the first 100 lines could work on multiple buffers. And when selecting > a column from position 8 to the end of the line, for all lines, this > could also work in other buffers. E.g., to skip line numbers in cobol > files. > > Comes back to an old request: How to specify a block of text on the > command line? Always using ":'<,'>" doesn't allow for easy scripting. > Something like ":[1,8],[50,$]" would be "from line 1 column 8 until line > 50, end of the line". > > Not that we decide how to do that now, just to keep in mind when > deciding how a command with block selection could work. > And how to pass things around internally. Currently only the line range > is passed around, we would need to add the virtual columns to that.
Indeed. But that is way beyond what I can do. For now let me just post a patch that implements the :bvimgrep command. Everything else will be much more complicated and (correct me if I am wrong) will take forever until it will be merged, because the risk of breaking something is much more higher. Best, Christian -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
