Questions tagged [join]
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Inconsistent string handling [duplicate]
I've been assembling strings in vimscript using a . as the join command.
But when I try and use the same command to join a string when setting an option, such as:
:setlocal foldtext=v:folddashes . &...
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How to join multiple lines which doesn't include space at the end
I'm working on a subtitle document (.srt) which has thousand of lines. But this issue is not about the subtitle documents, I going to export as plain text to read after. To see the dialogs line by ...
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Remove blank lines appearing between non-blank lines without a regex?
What is the quickest way to un-doublespace in Vim, without using a regex?
I.e., convert
line one
<emptyline>
line two
<emptyline>
line three
to
line one
line two
line three
There's gotta ...
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combining multiple lines [duplicate]
I have a text file of X ips and X files that looks like:
ip1
ip2
ip3
some_dir/file1
some_dir/file2
some_dir/file3
I'd like to combine the lines into a csv format, like:
ip1,some_dir/file1
ip2,...
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How to only join lines that start with multiple spaces
what is the global command that will join lines that start with more than one space?
I have tried this but it does not work as expected:
:g/ \{2,}//J
Example:
I want to turn this:
01:001:001 In the ...
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Join contiguous lines of natural text and leave adjacent, non-connected lines
I would like to join all lines in a file which are continuous parts of some natural language but not back-to-back lines which are two separate entities. For example:
Join:
There was once a man
called ...
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Joining lines on Vim removes random characters [duplicate]
I have just noticed on my version of Vim (vim-tiny package on FreeBSD)
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Jul 5 2021 16:53:06)
Included patches: 1-3081
Compiled by root@130amd64-quarterly-...
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Join multiple lines based on pattern
I have text bounded by quotes as follows
"This is
an example
of some text"
I want to join these into one line. e.g.
"This is an example of some text"
I have tried commands like ...
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Paste a block-copy into a single line
I need to restructure a markdown table, and for that, I wish there was a quick way to "join" lines from a multi-line cell.
So with Vim, I would have to yank the block (Ctrl-v), and then ...
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Is it possible to ignore J if only one line is selected?
Today I made a macro that involved selecting a few lines to join. The problem was that sometimes I only selected parts of one line and in this case two lines was still joined with J. Is it possible to ...
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How to join lines within a block with `J`?
I want to join all the lines within a {} block.
{
'a': 1,
'b': 2,
'c': 3,
}
⬇︎
{ 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, }
Since J doesn't take a range, like d or c, the best command I found to do this is ...
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use J to join comments
Imagine I have comments
// line one
// line two
and I am on line one and want to join it with line two I will press J but that results in this:
// line one // line two
Instead of what I want
// ...
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Vim: Foldtext contain all content, instead of only the first line
Would like to have all content of the folded block, instead of only the first line.
My current foldsettings are:
set foldmethod=marker
set foldmarker={,}
Example how my data is structured:
{
...
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Prepend line underneath current line (or "join" to front of line)
I'd like to prepend the line below the current line to the current line. In other words, I want to "join" (like with J in normal mode) but instead of putting the line below the current line at the end ...
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Preventing the join() command from adding extra space
I am trying to use the join command to join multiple strings. The join command seems to add one character of space in between each of the strings. But I don't want any space added.
As an example, I'm ...
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Why are my bulleted lines automatically joining?
I use the a formatoption to make my text hard wrap, and the n formatoption to recognize numbered lists. The help says that the n option should use the formatlistpat regex to determine which lines not ...
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How do I remove newlines inside arbitrary xml tags matching a pattern?
I'm working with large xml files that have tags, and some are spread across multiple lines, and some are on a single line. I'd like them to all be on a single line. There are other tags in the files ...
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Join the line above the current line
I often use J to join the current line with the one below:
J Join [count] lines, with a minimum of two lines.
Remove the indent and insert up to two ...
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substitute a join for a character that ends a line
when pasting from a pdf document, words in the original document are being split up, and replaced by a - and a line break. For example:
alternative specifications. In con-
clusion, these findings
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