stosss wrote:
> There are curly quotes in a text file and I want to replace
> them with straight quotes. Since I don't see any way to type
> a curly quote in vim. I need to high-light one (visual-mode?
> select-mode?
I highly recommend that tip I mentioned; I use it all the time
for searching for text that I have selected.
The following is what I use (in my vimrc) to convert curly
quotes to straight:
" Convert curly quotes to straight.
" Any argument causes substitute to confirm changes.
function! ToStraight(line1, line2, args)
let flags = 'eg'
let range = a:line1 . ',' . a:line2
if empty(a:args)
let range = 'silent ' . range
else
let flags .= 'c'
endif
let search = @/
exe range . "s/['']/'/" . flags
exe range . 's/[""]/"/' . flags
nohl
let @/ = search
endfunction
command! -nargs=? -range ToStraight call ToStraight(<line1>, <line2>, '<args>')
If the utf-8 encoding is not corrupted, you will see the curly
quotes inside the [brackets] in the two "exe range..." lines.
Usage examples:
:%ToStraight " convert all
:ToStraight " convert current line only
:%ToStraight c " convert all and confirm each
John
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