On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:05:27 PM UTC-5, glts wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 7:49:31 PM UTC+2, russur wrote: > > At my work, i am having to put specialized xml tags around selected text. > > So for example i might have: > > > > > > The quick brown fox, jumps over the lazy dog. > > > > Now i would have to put: > > > > The quick <Node arch="386, 486, 586">brown </Node> fox, jumps over the lazy > > dog. > > > > What is the best/elegant way to do this in Vim? > > You could use surround.vim: > > https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround > > Place your cursor on 'brown' and type > > ysiw<Node arch="386, 486, 586"> > > Mnemonic for this command: 'you surround' inner word. > > > -- > David
I will try that. In the interim I put the surrounding text into register o, and then did the following: vx"oP%P visually select my text cut that text Paste before from register o go to the beginning < character of the ending xml tag Paste the cut text before this. -- -- 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/d/optout.
