Hello Tim, Many thanks for your help. The command provided does exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks also to the others who provided solution and comments. Cheers, Jean-christophe On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:14:52 -0500 Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I want to do is to find every line starting with 'delete' and > > delete from the 'aaaa' line till the 'bbbb' line. > > > > I thought about using a global command to do that, but I can't get > > it working. > > You're on the right track. Assuming your bracketing lines always > exist in parity around your lines-to-delete, you can do something > like > > :g/^delete/?aaaa?,/bbbb/d > > which roughly translates to > > /^delete/ on lines matching "^delete" > ?aaaa? go backwards to find "aaaa" > , through > /bbbb/ going forward from "aaaa" to the line with "bbbb" > d delete this range ("aaaa" through "bbbb") > > Odd edge cases occur if they can be arbitrarily nested, if the > start/end (aaaa/bbbb) lines don't always occur, or if your > aaaa/bbbb patterns happen to contain "^delete". But for the > general case, the above should do the trick. > > -tim > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > -- Liip AG // Agile Web Development // T +41 26 422 25 11 CH 1700 Fribourg // GPG 0xFC648C61 // www.liip.ch
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