On 23:20 Sun 28 Oct , Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-10-28, Chris Lott wrote: > > What's the most efficient way to visually select a block of text and > > append/prepend a character or more? > > > > In other words, I often want convert this: > > > > blah blah foo foo > > > > to > > > > "blah blah foo foo" > > > > I assume there are plugins that help with this kind of thing, for > > which suggestions are welcome, but I'm curious how to do this most > > efficiently without them. > > The way I would do that without using a plugin would be visually > select the block, then type > > s"<C-R>1"<Esc> > > where <C-R> means Ctrl-R. That will substitute the current > selection with a ", the original selected text from the 1 register, > and another ". > > Regards, > Gary > > -- > 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
I like that! With visual area less than one line one has to use the - register. Best, Marcin -- 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
