On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 6:12:47 AM UTC-5, BPJ wrote: > I'm trying to do a substitution in a 'horizontal/virtual column range'. > > I have an ASCII table where the columns are separated by tab > characters (for now). I want to wrap the contents (which contain > space (U+0020) and \S characters, being of unequal length of > course!) of some specific table columns in asterisks (think > Markdown emphasis). I thought I could use a range and \%v to > match the text between two screen virtual columns and then use an > expression with substitute() to wrap instances of \T\+ > inside the matched screen column range, something like > > 'a,'b s/\%13v.*\%46v/\=substitute(submatch(0),'\T\+','*&*','g')/ > > but apparently I've misunderstood \%v because I get no match. > So what is the right way to do this? I'm not looking forward to > changing three columns on some 70 lines manually! > > /bpj
What are you trying to match with "\T"? Because as far as I can tell that matches the letter "t". If you're looking to match tabs, that would be "\t". The case does make a difference. -- -- 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.
