Hello Tim and all,
Tim Chase wrote on 21.11.09:
> 1) bring the "country ___" line down to each non-country line:
>
> :v/^country /?country ?t-|s/country //|j
> [...]
> Step #1 is a bit packed:
>
> :v/ on every line that doesn't match
> country the literal text "country "
> / perform this set of actions:
> ?country ? look backwards to the most recent
> line containing "country "
I think i don't understand this: why do you look *backward* for an occurence of
"country" after you find a line that doesn't contain "country"?
Intuitively i would walk forward through the occurences of "country".
> t and copy it
> - to the line before this match
> ("-" is short-hand for ".-1")
and why do you do this instead of simply deleting *country* in place?
> | and then
> s/ substitute
> country the first "country " on the line
> // replacing with nothing
> | and then
> j join this line (the actual country data)
> with the next line (the one to which we
> are prepending, e.g. "cc")
thank you for enlightening a simple mind.
jan
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