Thanks, Tony. Your response has helped me understand that my substitute solution will not work here either.
Reason that neither solution will work is that it requires moving the cursor, and that's not at all desirable in this case. Effectively what I'm after here is a byte-offset based equivalents of bufsetline(), appendbufline() and deletebufline(). Paul On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 09:32, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:55 AM Paul Jolly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've tried various permutations of search terms, but so far turned up a > > blank. > > > > Is there a function/similar that will allow me to set buffer contents > > between a start and end byte offset? > > > > If there isn't, I have a "backup" in the form of a :substitute like: > > > > %s/\%3l\%1c\_.*\%4l\%1c/hello\r/g > > > > (because I'm also deriving the line and col whilst deriving the byte > > offset) but I suspect the byte-offset based approach will be > > considerable more efficient if available. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Paul > > see > :help go > :help v_c > > You could "go" to your starting point, set Visual mode, go to your > ending point, and then "c"hange or "s"ubstitute. > > Best regards, > Tony. > > -- > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXu6%2BMi7Bs3CaHrkiz4ejcZef96Gq18XJcvdgMa%2BGEk0zQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CACoUkn7RJ0zBBPq4N-xyk6%2B7hZBr9pmDUa7Y%3DZbkF-2qaM-QeQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
