* Tim Chase <[email protected]> [120121 08:41]: > >>I would like to be able to move a column right by an arbitrary > >>numbers of spaces, regardless of the value of `shiftwidth'. > > > >>Is that possible? > > > >many ways -- probably the simplest: > > > > - position the cursor at the left/top of the column you want > > to move > > - press ctrl-v to enter visual mode > > - cursor down with the relevant motion command however long > > your column is > > > - press I > > - enter as many spaces as you want > > Or, enter a count for the number of spaces, press "I", insert one > space and hit <ESC>. > > > - press ESC and the rest of the lines will get their spaces > > > If the column is delimited rather than at a particular character > offset, you can use (assuming a "," as the delimiter here) > > :%s/^\%([^,]*,\)\{5}\zs/\=repeat(' ', 10) > > where "5" is the number of columns to precede the insertion, and > "10" is the number of spaces to insert. Similarly, one could use > \%20c or \%20v as the search target for inserting N spaces. > > As SC said, lots of options :) Thank you tim and sc. Works like a charm! cheers -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com
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