On Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:29:45 UTC-4, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi jcordes!
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> On Sa, 02 Feb 2013, jcordes wrote:
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> > On Saturday, 2 February 2013 16:09:17 UTC-4, jcordes wrote:
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> > > On Saturday, 2 February 2013 14:40:47 UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote:
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> > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:27:27 -0800 (PST), jcordes wrote:
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> > > > > On Friday, 1 February 2013 23:46:03 UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote:
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> > > > > > You could do something like
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> > > > > > :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
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> > > > > Thanks very much for posting this. Your explanation (in a later
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> > > > > post) makes a lot of sense,
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> > > > > but for some reason I keep coming up
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> > > > > with an 'invalid range' error when I use :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
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> > > > The only way I was able to trigger this was if either:
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> > > > 1) your relative-range happens to be swapped (such that the 2nd line
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> > > > comes before the first line), or
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> > > > 2) if your file only has one line in it.
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> > > > I might be able to better determine what's going on if you can
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> > > > produce a sample file against which I could test.
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> > > Tim, and Christian:
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> > > 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:
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> > > ###########
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> > > 2010.09.06
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> > >
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> > > Enter more city directory data - I already have quite a lot for my family
> > > in
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> > > spreadsheets.
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> > >
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> > > ###########
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> > > There are 5 lines, the last one being empty. Lines 3 and 4 are each
> > > terminated by a LF.
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> > > I'm not sure if I may be misunderstanding the original proposal, to do
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> > > :g/^\</'{+,'}-j
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> > > Was it intended that the entire file should be visually selected first?
> > > I hadn't thought so.
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> > > Thanks for your assistance,
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> > > John
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> > Sorry for the repost - I just realized I should have attached the test
> > file. Have done so in this message.
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> > John
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> > 2010.09.06
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> > Enter more city directory data - I already have quite a lot for my family in
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> > spreadsheets.
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> I think, this happens, because there is no empty first line in your
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> file. Simply add an empty first line in front of everything and I
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> believe the :g command works.
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> regards,
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> Christian
Hi Christian,
I tried inserting an empty line at the top of the file, but am still
experiencing the E147: Cannot do :global recursive
If I keep the empty top line and visually select the entire file, then the
command works as expected. This also works for the original file I was working
with. So in summary, inserting an empty line at the top *and* visually
selecting the entire file enables the command to work.
Perhaps I misunderstood the original message and it was intended to select the
whole file first.
Thanks,
John Cordes
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