> Hi Davido! > > On So, 19 Sep 2010, Davido wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Suppose you edit a conf file, and want just the : > > > > var = val > > > > lines, without the comments. It would be great if the NarrowRegion > > plugin could handle this case. > > > > More generally, I was wondering if it would be possible to run a filter in > > vim and send the result to NR. In other words, I would like to to this : > > > > :g/pattern/NR > > > > to edit the matching lines in a new buffer. Unfortunetly, the above > > command give me just the first matching line. Is there a workaround to > > this ? > > That is an interesting question. Unfortunately, this is not how the > Narrow Region plugin works. It basically only remembers for each each > region the start and end regions in the original buffer. So it requires > one continuous region. > > But you want one region, that possibly consists of lines that are not > continous in the original buffer. Now what should happen, if you insert > line breaks and you write the buffer back. Where does the new line > belong to?
Well, a possible solution would imply an elaborate layout in the narrowed buffer, with markers between the continuous sections of the original buffer to avoid any ambiguity in creation/deletion/move of lines (using vim folding or whatever). > I have to think about it how to implemented this. > > regards, > Christian Thanks for your interest in my problem, anyway. -- Regards, Davido -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
