On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Chris Lott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm constantly needing to wrap a series of comma separated titles with
> html <i> tags, so this:
>
> John has published work in foo, fubar, boo review, and many more.
>
> Becomes this
>
> John has published work in <i>foo</i>, <i>fubar</i>, <i>boo
> review</i>, and many more.
>
> Right now I'm visually highlighting each title and using emmet to wrap
> with the tags, but it seems like there must be a shorter way!
The basic idea is to use
:%s#pattern#<i>&</i>#g
I am using '#' instead of the usual '/' so that I do not have to escape '/'
in the replacement. If you can afford the extra character, then this is
equivalent:
:%s/pattern/<i>&<\/i>/g
Note that '&' in the replacement corresponds to the matched text. (:help
sub-replace-special)
The question is what pattern to use. If you use '\k\+\ze,' then it
will match a "word" preceding a comma: in your example, "foo", "fubar",
and "review". The question is how to get "boo review" and not "in foo".
One possibility is to match either '\k\+' before a comma or '[^,]\+' after
", " and before ",", so the full pattern is ',\s*\zs[^,]\+\ze,\|\k\+\ze,'
and the full command is
:%s#,\s*\zs[^,]\+\ze,\|\k\+\ze,#<i>&</i>#g
--
HTH
Benji Fisher
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