Hi jcordes!
On Sa, 02 Feb 2013, jcordes wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 February 2013 16:09:17 UTC-4, jcordes wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2 February 2013 14:40:47 UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:27:27 -0800 (PST), jcordes wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Friday, 1 February 2013 23:46:03 UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote:
> > >
> > > > > You could do something like
> > >
> > > > > :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Thanks very much for posting this. Your explanation (in a later
> > >
> > > > post) makes a lot of sense,
> > >
> > > > but for some reason I keep coming up
> > > > with an 'invalid range' error when I use :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
> > >
> > > The only way I was able to trigger this was if either:
> > >
> > > 1) your relative-range happens to be swapped (such that the 2nd line
> > > comes before the first line), or
> > >
> > > 2) if your file only has one line in it.
> > >
> > > I might be able to better determine what's going on if you can
> > > produce a sample file against which I could test.
> >
> > Tim, and Christian:
> >
> > I have reduced the file to something very short - however, at some point
> > the error changed to E147: Cannot do :global recursive. Here is the short
> > version:
> >
> > ###########
> > 2010.09.06
> >
> > Enter more city directory data - I already have quite a lot for my family in
> > spreadsheets.
> >
> > ###########
> >
> > There are 5 lines, the last one being empty. Lines 3 and 4 are each
> > terminated by a LF.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I may be misunderstanding the original proposal, to do
> > :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
> >
> > Was it intended that the entire file should be visually selected first? I
> > hadn't thought so.
> >
> > Thanks for your assistance,
> > John
>
> Sorry for the repost - I just realized I should have attached the test file.
> Have done so in this message.
> John
>
> 2010.09.06
>
> Enter more city directory data - I already have quite a lot for my family in
> spreadsheets.
>
I think, this happens, because there is no empty first line in your
file. Simply add an empty first line in front of everything and I
believe the :g command works.
regards,
Christian
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dir.
-- Theodor Roosevelt
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