On Friday, 28 August 2015 18:46:00 UTC-4, Justin M. Keyes wrote: > On Aug 27, 2015 3:45 PM, "Gary Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 2015-08-27, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > Hi Quinn! > > > > > > > > On Do, 27 Aug 2015, Quinn Strahl wrote: > > > > > > > > > I was just reminded of another little grievance I have with > > > > > :g/^/norm -- it sets the last search pattern to /^/, a very > > > > > unintended side-effect. > > > > > > > > But that is what :g is for. > > > > > > Yes, but Quinn's point is that it wouldn't be necessary to use :g > > > and a dummy pattern if :normal worked the way that :g does, that is, > > > if ":{range}normal {commands}" first marked the lines in {range}, > > > then went back and executed {commands} on those marked lines. > > Use > > :keeppatterns g/^/... > > to avoid setting @/.
*Of course* there is a command for that. :) Thank you, Justin, and thank you, Christian. Between a patch and a workaround I don't think I could ask for a better response. Cheers! -- -- 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.
