I search a way to paste/merge 2 block of text
block A
apple
pear
banana
block B
tomato
beans
potato
to this
apple tomato
pear beans
banana potato
I'm looking for an easy way to do this using macros.
1 Answer
Visual block mode is a good route....
- Put cursor on "a" in apple
<C-V>: we'll visually select the whole block...- move cursor to banana, e.g.
}kis good (line count agnostic) $A<space><esc>- this adds a space after every linegvd-gvrecreates the previous visual selection,ddeletes
Move cursor to "t" in tomato and hit P to paste.
This can be used directly in a macro.
Update: I just remembered that I wrote a fairly substantial answer to a somewhat similar question: Add a block of text to end of lines. It doesn't have an exact answer to your question like I've written here but you might find it useful/interesting.
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I tried that but when I paste I end up with, is it something wrong with my paste command? tomato apple pear banana beans potato Jun 30, 2020 at 21:23
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You pasted with capital
P? Cursor first column, first line of second block?– B LayerJun 30, 2020 at 21:25 -
if i use capital p it goes apple pear banana tomato beans potato Jun 30, 2020 at 21:26
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1While that configuration's good for debugging problems it's not really representative of the most common setups. A better test would probably be to use Vim's defaults.vim as the sole config file. Just use
--clean. Either way when I get a sec I'll see if I can reproduce what you're seeing.– B LayerJun 30, 2020 at 23:38
pastecommand). OP didn't mention files so my answer is about two blocks of text in a buffer (or two buffers).