Mind the reply to! Den 27 jun 2016 17:53 skrev "Tumbler Terrall" <kingdomboun...@gmail.com>: > > 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.
It was intended to match anything but a tab, but I see now that that escape isn't supported by Vim. Anyway I ended up writing an external filter in Perl, since the needed steps turned out to be somewhat more complicated than I first thought: I needed to leave some Pandoc footnote marks outside the emphasis. -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
