On 2021-09-04, rwmit...@gmail.com <rwmitch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just curious, is the file being otherwise edited in vim? I usually > just use less to view logs, in which case, a command line filter would be > more efficient (for me).
Thanks that's a good suggestion in general. In this case, yes, I am going to perform more editing. > On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 11:23:28 AM UTC-4 Tim Chase wrote: > >> On 2021-09-04 14:07, Andreas Perstinger wrote: >> > Alternatively, without using an external command: >> > >> > :%s_^\[\(\d\+\)_\="[" . strftime("%c", submatch(1))_ >> >> This is much better than the suggestion I gave, keeping it all >> internal to vim. To clean it up, I'd tweak it to >> >> :%s/\[\zs\d\+\ze\]/\=strftime("%c", submatch(0)) Learning Vim is a never-ending experience: I didn't know (or remember) about submatch()! Can you explain why \zs... \ze is to be preferred to capturing with \( and \)? Thanks, Life. -- -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/sh0ep4%24q6g%241%40ciao.gmane.io.