On 04/19/12 10:57, Paul wrote:
I have some text like this:
# Something important
# Start of the range
# anything could be here
# anything could be here
# Something important
That is: the start of the range, followed by the next two lines but only if
they're also comments (I'm going to automate it, so I must make sure that those
lines are such).
:g/^# Start of the range\n#.*\n#.*/d
doesn't work, because it deletes only the first line. Is my 'norm 3dd' method
the best way?
I'd usually use
:g/^# Start of the range\n#.*\n#/.,+2d
which does as you describe. Alternatively, if you can identify
the 2nd "Something important", you can do things like
:g/^# Start of the range/.,/^# Something important/-1d
which will delete from "Start of the range" through the line
before ("-1") the next line matching "^# Something important".
All sorts of nifty Ex tricks here.
-tim
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