On Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:23:39 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2013-06-20, Chris Lott wrote: > > > Given a text: > > > > > > line1 has stuff > > > so does line 2 > > > > > > line 4 has more stuff > > > and line 5 > > > and so on > > > > > > I would like to select the text block and append a word to each > > > non-blank line. I can use a block selection and `A` to add to all > > > selected lines, but not sure how to only apply to lines that have > > > text. > > > > I don't think there is a way to qualify an operation like A on a > > visually-selected region like that. However, you can so qualify a > > :substitute command. Select the text block and type > > > > :g/./s/$/word/ >
Since you don't like regex (although you're right, you should learn), you could alternatively do it like you've always done with A: :g/./normal! Aword -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
