Questions tagged [multiple-lines]
Questions where working on more than one line is a relevant aspect. In most cases that means repeating the same command(s) over several lines. – Related: the [repeated-commands] tag
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Any .vimrc hacks to make vim automatically start a new line when you exceed line length?
Normally, when you type text (this is just annoyance when you are taking notes) in vim, and you exceed the line length of the program, it keeps the line going but the line number isn't present:
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Manually indenting lines with tabs
Lines can be indented with tab characters. And it is quite obvious the there are better ways to do that than manually adding a tab character to the beginning of each line.
But how to discover these ...
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Replace characters in relative linespan
I know that I can replace characters in a linespan via something to the effect of :300,305s/foo/bar/g
But when I'm deep in the code, and I know that I just want to replace in the next five lines, I'm ...
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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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How can I add a specific range of numbers into to each line at a particular location?
For example, we have:
1 this is line. please go to file example.txt for more information.
2 this is line. please go to file demo.txt for more information.
3 this is line. please go to file ...
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Why are so many underscore lines in my file when to open it with Vim?
Everytime I opened a file with Vim,so many underscore lines in it such as below:
How can remove all the underscore lines ?
:colorsheme is desert.
The highlight output:
The terminal is LXTerminal.
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How to select non-uniform length strings from within multiple lines
Suppose I have this data:
import { york1400 } from "./data/york1400";
import { york1430 } from "./data/york1430";
import { york1500 } from "./data/york1500";
import { ...
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How to see offscreen undo changes?
Imagine a text file with some words on the first line, one-thousand blank lines, and some text on the last line.
this is a first line of text.
<1000 blank lines>
Last line of text.
From the ...
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Keeping lines in vim with certain number of columns
I have a large file which have some corrupt lines like this
0.6 8 379699 730 0.999769 0.802075 0.912155
0.6 8 379699 731 0.999698 0.8181070.8 8 377999 0 0.674844
0.765493 0....
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Repeat complex actions over a number of lines (in Vim)
I am editing a LaTeX document and I wanted to figure out the most efficient way to convert itemize environment to tabular environment. Here is an example of what I want to accomplish:
Change
\begin{...
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search and replace block to a line
I would like to replace a multiline block to one line
for example :
if (... ){
//comment0
line1
line2
}
some code
if (... ){
//comment0
line1
line2
}
...
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MVim terminal, how to execute multiple commands
I am trying to use MacVim's :terminal to execute some commands, but for some reasons I fail to make even the simplest functions work.
Here are some examples:
:function TryF()
: execute '...
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How to delete line endings in Vim?
Suppose I have several words on multiple lines:
R
T_std
k_AB_IN
k_AB_ac
k_AB_co2
k_La
Now I want them to have them all on one line, only seperated by one ...
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Multiline context errors
Sometimes I see multiline popup-base errors in screencasts like the one below:
Would anyone point me with a term or something to google it, as my ideas don't work for some reason?
Here's configs of ...
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How to replace everything between PORT= and )
I have a (copy of) oracle listener log, and would like to replace the portnumber in every line.
These are always of the form
(PORT=1234) with sometimes 4 and sometimes 5 numbers.
So an exampleline, ...
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Yank multiple lines without using visual mode
I have the text:
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
my cursor is in the first line, and I want to yank the first 2 lines.
Usually I would do it by pressing Shift+v, selecting the second line by going down with j ...
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How can I add text to the end of words on each line?
I have a series of single-word codes on separate lines in a text file. I'd like to add a backquote ( ` ) to the beginning and end of each word.
I know I can add a backquote to the beginning of each ...
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Deletion in multi-line edit mode
In Normal mode I use the following combination to edit multiple lines:
Ctrl + v
Select lines to edit
Shift + i
Edit line
Esc
However, this method only applies changes to the first line if character ...
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Discrete Visual mode
A feature that I love in VSCode is to be able to use my mouse to click at multiple points in the screen and type with multiple cursors.
I am aware that in Vim you can do the same in visual mode, but ...
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How can I sort multiline blocks in vim?
The task I have in mind is I have grown files containing multiline definitions.
Currently I'm working on a file containing acronyms for latex - many entries like this, but most much more complex:
\...
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How to do multiline non-rectangular deletion?
Here is a problem I am able to solve in Sublime in seconds but has me stumped in Vim:
Given text like this:
[email protected] Bob Potato
[email protected] Peter Carrot
thomas.cucumber@thomasstore....
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Break logical lines
I'm looking for a way to make a line be only logically broken at the end of the available space. Here's an example: let's suppose I have a really long line (i.e. a string without any \n in it), and to ...
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Remove 'jumps' when moving to last and first line in Vim [duplicate]
I have the display option set to lastline so that the last line is shown even if all it doesn't fit on the window. When moving down visual lines with gj to the last line that is only partially visible,...
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Paste append multiple lines
I search a way to paste/merge 2 block of text
apple
pear
banana
tomato
beans
potato
like this
apple tomato
pear beans
banana potato
The lines have different length but same number of lines of ...
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Search/replace multiple lines with confirmation
I'm trying to write a substitution command that would search for a line that doesn't end with a space character and others (see regex) and isn't followed by an empty line. The line length may vary ...
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How to copy long line from terminal buffer as it is without adding new lines?
I wanted to copy a public key from one machine to the other. I opened up vim and had two terminal buffers - one for each machine. In the terminal in which I had the first machine I went into normal ...
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Shuffle multiline folds
Suppose I have a bunch of folds for more than one line each. How to make shuffle them as folds not lines?
In case of lines it can be done by external shuf or any other command (see https://...
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How can I delete lines fit a pattern to a register or a new file?
I can use the powerful :g command to delete lines that contain a certain pattern like this:
:g/^\va pattern/d
I thought I should paste the deleted content to a new place but I cannot find all ...
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How can I stagger text in vim?
Given the following text:
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
How can each line be shifted left/right an amount related to their line number? Desired outputs:
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
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Visual Block Mode: How to insert text to multiple lines after line ending?
Below example, first line is shorter than the other lines.
I want to insert \ to all lines at the highlighted place.
If I press CtrlC, jjj(select all lines) , Shifti, \, only first line changed.
How ...
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Multiline regular expression excluding characters
I am designing a syntax rule (for R code) that highlights if I do not start a function with a curly all by itself. For example,
A <- function(x,
y){
would be match but I do ...
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How to autoformat a multi-line string
I want to format a multiline string according to a textwidth of 32.
group:
- normal: scalar
- multiline: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor ...
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Keep the full visual selection after indenting in easy mode vim
What is the best way to indent multiple lines in insert mode?
Here is what I have currently:
vmap <Tab> >
vmap <S-Tab> <
The problem is that it doesn't properly handle selection ...
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Replace capitalized letters in matching lines
I have multiple lines with the key "booktitle":
booktitle={Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO' 89 Proceedings},
volume={435},
series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
I would like to replace ...
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How can I soft-wrap a word to a new line?
Using textwidth (tw=74) a word will be moved to the next line (with an indent usually) with a newline character at the end of the line avoiding over-length. This is a hard wrap, and resizing the ...
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How to remove lines which have lower numbers than before, and keep only the sequential?
In order to parse certain log file and make a plot of sequential numbers, I need to filter out the lines with numbers which appearing lower than in the previous lines.
For example, given the list of ...
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endif treated as part of command in autocmd
Here is my code:
autocmd BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h
\ let dir=expand('<amatch>:p:h')
\ | if filereadable(dir.'/Makefile') || filereadable(dir.'/makefile')
\ | Make > /dev/null
\ |...
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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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Repeating multi-lines and increment numbers in specific sections?
I want to create a file that has X number of entries where each entry has incremental numbers for Y. I tried recording a macro that would copy the 3 lines then edit the value but it ended up editing ...
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How do I quote tabulated columns?
Currently, I'm using Vim Surround to make quoting easy on
Multiple whole-lines
Visual blocks
Individual words
However, it doesn't seem to make the job easy on columns, for example. Take this ...
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How to store all occurrences of a multiline search in a register?
I'm not sure if I've failed at searching for the answer to this, but now I've worked it out I wanted to document it here. The problem is searching for a multiline pattern, and storing all such ...
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Visual scrolling/visual <C-e> and <C-y> across wrapped lines?
This has been asked on stackoverflow before, but it seems it still has no solution. Perhaps that has changed with Vim 8.0.
I'd like to be able to scroll (i.e. scroll-wheel, or <C-y>/<C-e> ...
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multi-line insert after indentation whitespace
if I have a list of indented text
test test
test test
test test
test test
test test
test test
test test
and I wanted to convert it to a markdown list
- test test
- ...
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How to do restrict keyword inside special lines?
I am trying to write a VIM highlight file for Gaussian 09 inputs. One example of "control" line is shown below:
# P TPSSTPSS 6-31G* DENSITYFIT
OPT(VERYTIGHT) INT(ULTRAFINE)
FREQ(NORAMAN)
TITLE ...
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How to write each line into separate file?
I'd like to write content of the file into separate files each for each line.
For example:
Lorem
ipsum
dolor
sit
amet
consectetur
adipiscing
elit
I'd like to write 1st line into line1.txt, 2nd ...
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How to change text in other line when the pattern is found?
I've got this 4-line content:
foo
baa
baz
quz
and I'd like to replace baa to bar only when quz is found.
I've tried these commands (which highlights baa correctly, but says it's not found):
:/quz/...
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Sort every few lines
I want to sort the following based on their keys
case IndexError:
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, exc.str.c_str());
break;
case ValueError:
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, exc.str....
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delete entire line after first whitespace on every line
I have a file (around 1.6 million lines) which formatted like this:
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3.06381
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3.06381
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3....
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How to paste a text block in visual block mode?
I want to paste text which spans across multiple lines and is rectangular.
For example, a rectangular box representing a device topology diagram.
+-------+
| |
| |
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How to create multi-line abbreviations
I want to create an abbreviation for multiple lines. For example, when I type Doc, it has to print a four line text like
###############
# function :
# returns :
#
##############
When I tried to do ...
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