Questions tagged [range]
Questions having to do with the range modifier in ex (command-line) commands.
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Search and replace multiple line items within a range?
The following search command will make a range and search/replace within it. Specifically, it looks for 'first' in the text, then stops when it finds 'second' across multiple lines. Then, within that ...
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Unable to copy line with .co
Since dot (.) is the range indicator for the current line I was expecting
:.co
to copy the current line, but it does not do this. What am I doing wrong? In contrast
:.w my_line.txt
will write the ...
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Is it possible to return to normal mode in the middle of a vim command?
By simply calling :(range)g/bob/norm Axxx I can add xxx to the to the end of all lines in range containing bob. Is there a way to return to normal mode after having used A/I/a/i to enter insert mode, ...
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How can I echo the result of function with a range?
If I have a function that takes a range, how can I echo the return value of the function?
For example, the following does not work:
:echo 2,8call MyFunction()
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Is it possible to copy block (given by range) multiple times in a single command?
Is there a way to copy a few times a given block from command-line mode, e.g. with the :t command?
For example, how to copy the two lines (block) above the cursor -2,-1 to the current position ., 3 ...
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specify a range for command but not move cursor
In vim, when executing a command with a range specified, the cursor will move to the end of the range. For example, after 10;+4print, cursor will be at line 14 wherever you run this command.
Q1: Is ...
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Using range as argument returns a comparison
I am trying to capture the result returned from a function implementing range as an argument but apparently I get a comparison.
With the following code:
function! GetNumber() range
return 4
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Is it possible to chain multiple ex commands together with a single range?
I often want to move and indent code at the same time. Is it possible to do the following.
Original text:
1: var x = foo();
2: bar(x);
Desired text:
1: setTimeout(function(){
2: var x = foo();
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Is it possible to execute a Normal mode command only on the first/last line of a range?
I want to comment out a piece of code. For instance this snippet:
foo
bar
foo
Should become this:
<!--foo
bar
foo-->
So I type the following sequence:
vap:norm '<i<!--<C-v><...
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Passing visual range to a :command as its argument
I have a command:
command! -nargs=1 TmuxSession !tmux.session "<args>"
and I want to run it in visual mode so that selected text will be passed as argument.
By selected text I mean selected in ...
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How to assign a search range selection into a register?
I'd like to assign the result of search range selection into a register, instead of printing it, e.g.:
:/pattern1/;,/pattern2/p
What syntax I can use to achieve that?
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How to exclude the ending pattern in a search range?
I've the following content:
group1
item1
item2
item3
group2
item4
item5
group3
item6
where I'd like to select all items which belong to group2 using a search range.
Here is my approach:
...
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Using more than two line specifiers in an ex-range
Under :help [range] it states:
Some Ex commands accept a line range in front of them. This is noted as
[range]. It consists of one or more line specifiers, separated with ',' or
';'.
I am ...
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Current line after :3,7call XYZ()
Executing:3,7y does not change the line which contains the cursor (line('.')). This is what I expected.
However, when I execute :3,7call XYZ(), the current line goes to the third line. I didn't ...
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How to avoid 'Backwards range given' warning when invoking search range?
I've got the following sample HTML code:
<html><body>
<table class="foo">
<tr><td>1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>...
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How to highlight a search range?
I'd like to test the range pattern, same as Vim highlights the text while searching (e.g. :/), but for the range command instead.
So in other words, instead of executing:
:/<head/,/\/head>/d
...
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How to pipe *characters* to cmd ( `:!` ) [duplicate]
It is possible to pipe visually selected lines (i.e. selected with uppercase V) using :, after which I can enter a command in vim's command line, e.g.:
:'<,'>!python -m base64 -d
I'd like to ...
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onoremap: defining a bounded region
I want to craft a custom operator-pending motion if for functions in R language that look like this:
doSomething <- function(arg1, arg2, ...) {
doStuff(...)
}
The idea is to be able to press ...
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How to filter discontinuous line sets through an external program (Is it possible to combine :g global command with :range! external program filter)?
Say you have some text like this:
## countries, primary
United States,Washington,North America
Canada,Ottawa,North America
Australia,Canberra,Oceania
## countries, secondary
France,Paris,Europe
Japan,...
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Define range as: “from first line matching to last line matching a given pattern”
Considerthis text with shopping and todo list
First thing in the morning
- call Bob
- buy carrots
- buy bread
- text Charlie
- buy butter
- email Alice
only then start the day
What I am looking for ...
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Act on lines changed by previous command
Is there a way to target the set of lines changed in the previous command? Say I do a search and replace, bulk indent, or some other command that affects either a series or scattered collection of ...
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specifying a range the last of which is the penultimate line
I have 69 files in which I want to prepend lines 5 to penultimate with a short string. How could I address the penultimate line? :5,61s/^/X/g would do it if I manually look up that the last line is 62,...
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Applying changes to lines in alternating modes
I know I can apply changes to multiple lines by selecting the lines in visual mode (I use ctrl-v) and defining the set of actions and the mode to start in (e.g. norma A, will add a comma at the end of ...
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Invert range selection
I can remove the last 10 lines like this:
ex -sc '-9,d|x' f.txt
However, I would like to invert the selection, or remove all lines except the
last 10. Is this possible?
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How to search and format a text range?
I want to format a block of text and I am using a range to select the leading comment of a function. It's all lines starting with // ....
I'm using the range
:?^[^\/][^\/]?+1,/^[^\/][^\/]/-1
to ...
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Replace a series of asterisk bullet points with a numbered list
Imagine I have the following text:
some random stuff
* asdf
* foo
* bar
some other random stuff
I want to replace the asterisk bullets with numbers, like so:
some random stuff
1. asdf
2. foo
3. bar
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Can my mapping/function detect when count/range 1 is given instead of none?
I have a key mapped to a command which runs a function, and I would like to detect whether it has been passed a range (prefixed with a count) or not.
The difficultly is that I need to be able to ...
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Search and replace in vimscript using a range?
I was wondering how it is that I would place VIMScript variable values in my regex range and also in the replacement portion of my regex?
function! GoogleFormsStep(startnum, endnum)
let x = ...
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Creating a Vim function mapping that takes a count
I'm trying to create a function mapping that takes a count, in this case the number of lines to yank to the system clipboard.
func! Clipboard()
echo 'Clipboard function called'
if v:count is 0
...
