Questions tagged [repeated-commands]
Questions about replaying the same command. This includes the dot command (.), @ macros, @: and similar methods.
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How do I run a shell command periodically and silently from within Vi?
Before I came here, I went to executing command from within Vim and learned it can be done using:
:!command
Then I went to executing it silently and figured how that I need to run:
:silent exec ...
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how to replace N characters without having to press <esc>, is it possible?
In command mode, r replaces the character under the cursor by the one pressed right after typing r without going into insert mode, so there's no esc to press.
5r replaces the 5 characters starting ...
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Save last command for next time vim is run?
I'm editing a file. I do a string search (EG /sometext). I then save the file and exit Vim. I then start Vim on another file. I press / and Vim finds the next instance of sometext.
How can I do ...
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Save last action (.) in a macro
Use Case
I'm in normal mode. I've not explicitly thought about recording a macro, but I make a single command change. I can now repeat this action by using dot.
I now realize it's a useful action to ...
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How to format csv with regex
I have a csv that looks like this:
1,wer123,name,address1,age,2,cde789,name,address1,address2,age,3,529owq,name,address1,age
and so on.
I want this csv to be formatted as
1, wer123, name, ...
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Repeat not only last command
The repeat command . is awesome. Is it possible to cycle through the last few commands, instead of only being able to repeat the last command? Something like yankring for repeat?
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Macros behaving unexpectedly (not executing commands)
I have the following macro
let @f='ivoid function (void param^[o {^M^M^[3kwi'
where ^[ represents ESC and ^M new line.
for some reason it does not execute anything after the 3k, I tried replacing ...
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Quickly creating JSON entries in an Avro schema
Is there a quicker way to create more entries of form { "name": FIELD_NAME, "type": "string" } from a list of words down below, than recording a macro to process each word and then pasting the result ...
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Vim - edit last action before using (.)
Related to but not duplicate¹ of Bundling command sequences together for repeat (.).
The point (.) command is really useful to redo the last action (insertion, replacement, etc.).
Sometimes I find ...
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how to accept count for visual block ctrl+a remap?
I have created a vmap but I can't figure out how to apply a count to it.
In this case, the mapping is on <C-a> and 4<C-a> is an example of a command with a count failing to be applied. We ...
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How to repeat last mapping/action?
I know that I can repeat last change with ., last command with @: and last motion with repmo plugin. What about other actions such as switching to the previous/next tab (gT/gt)? Is there a command for ...
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Down and . X times?
Say I perform a combination of keys and now they are registered in .
Now I want to go down X lines and run . on each one.
For example say I have:
{colorComponentId: 0, value: (value.warmWhite * 255)...
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How to delete blocks of text which contain a specific string?
I have a file which has the following structure
From: foo@example.org
Subject: Bar
Date: 2017-06-27
Mailbox: /some/dire/ctory
<CR>
Such a block always contains of four lines followed by an ...
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Unexpected behavior using “<count>J” to join multiple lines
When I prefix the J ("join") command with a count, Vim is joining one fewer line than I expect. For example, with the cursor at the first column, first line of the following,
one
two
three
four
five
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remap ':' to maintain last command, and erase all char if any key other than <CR> was pressed
As the title stated, remap ':' to maintain last command, and erase all char if any key other than <CR> was pressed.
possible use cases:
I have typed a long command, and I may or may not ...
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How to repeat a certain operation across lines of code? [duplicate]
I need to repeat a certain operation across several lines of code spread through out the code base. For instance,
x = y;
needs to be replaced with
EQUATE(x,y);
However each instance needs to be ...
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Expand visual selection of surrounding code blocks
Given the following code in visual mode :
{
{
some text
^ cursor
}
}
if I type a{ this will be selected :
{
{ < selection start
some text
} < selection end
}
I'd like to ...
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Why copying from named register cannot be repeated using dot operator?
I am copying a word with: viwy (visual, inner, word, yank)
Now I would like to replace some other word: viwp.
This works only once, because each word is replaced by the last removed word.
Ok, so I ...
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1answer
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Can I map the number of search matches to a key?
I'd like to map 0 to whatever number of matches I currently have. For example:
This here has 5 matches. If I wanted to perform a macro on every instance, i'd like to be able to simply type:
0Q (Q ...
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1answer
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. (dot) command and backspace
Say I want to turn this:
find(vec_a.begin(), vec_a.end(), c)
into this:
find(vec_b->begin(), vec_b->end(), c)
That's what I just wanted to do, so I tried this (commands separated by commas):
...
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Repeat motion easily
Sometimes I'll guess a count for a cursor movement, say 4b but it was actually 7 words away. If I'd performed an edit I could press . to repeat; I could have done @: to repeat a command line.
It ...
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Make mapping repeatable with repeat.vim
I'm trying to make a mapping that inserts an empty line below without moving the cursor and to make this repeatable with repeat.vim. I have modeled this from vimcasts. To get back to the original ...
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How can I insert a character repeatedly until even with next line?
Say I have a comment like this:
//This is a comment
And I want to make it like this:
//*****************
//This is a comment
//*****************
Is there an easy way to insert a character ...
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Bundling command sequences together for repeat (.)
Consider:
apple
pear
Put your cursor on the first line and type Yp, producing:
apple
apple
pear
Put your cursor on the pear line and type . to repeat the last command. This repeats only the p (...
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Repeat works reuses unnamed register. Bug or a feature?
Suppose I want to get from this a,b to this 'a','b'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know about surround plugin. The cursor is on the start of line
I'm doing cw<bsp>'<C-r>". I have delimitMate plugin, ...
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Run a command on every match of a search (not on the line)
I am trying to run a command on every occurrence of a search match.
So, If i have some thing like this where a search match matches only these two anchor tags,
.................. <a src="****" &...
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repeat indent-to-previous-position in vim?
I very often want to do the following or similar:
indent all lines from previous position to current position inclusive
repeat, repeat, repeat (to further indent the same lines)
I feel I should be ...
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Replace . with -> in specific places
Sometimes I need to replace . with -> when fixing code.
Usually search and replace cannot be used because there will be many (hundreds of) dots (.) and only a few ones of them must be changed.
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How to insert repetitive text with minor difference in vim?
I want to insert text like this:
similar text wordA similar text ...
similar text wordB similar text ...
similar text wordC similar text ...
I know I can paste the text many times then use the ...
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Is there a way to repeat the pænultimate (or older) change?
The . command is super useful for quickly doing the last primitive action again. However, any other modification I do in between will override this.
Is there a way to recall&repeat older changes ...
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Call function on several lines
I have a function that changes the 6th caracter of a line to a dollar symbol ($).
I want it to be performed on several lines, so I naively did a "while" loop using a counter (as shown under).
But ...
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How to copy first four characters of every line to the end of that same line?
Given a series of lines that look similar to this:
2001 "Some Kind of Title," Author's Name, Publication Name, 1 Mar.
2002 "Some Kind of Title," Author's Name, Publication Name, 12 Oct.
2003 "Some ...
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Is there a way to encapsulate a variable with a method with a repeatable action?
I am trying to encapsulate variables with a method. For example, I am converting this:
return variable1;
To this:
return verify(variable1);
Is there a way to quickly repeat this action (ideally ...
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How to repeat the last command in Ex?
I've the file, like:
name = foo
# unknown number of lines ...
features_exclude[rules_config][] = rule1
features_exclude[rules_config][] = rule2
features_exclude[rules_config][] = rule3
...
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repeat insert at beginning of line
When I repeatedly inserting at the beginning of a line it is problematic because the cursor ends up in the middle of the line so I have to move back to the beginning of the line each time. So, for ...
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Repeating the last move using . (w followed by .)
I read that . is used for repeating the last command in Normal Mode. So if I used the command 2w move forward two words and then press . then I would expect to move two words more however this does ...
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Make a frequent RSpec edit easy & repeatable
Writing unit tests in RSpec, I frequently change something like this,
it 'eats pizza' do
pizza = build(:pizza)
expect(subject.eats?(pizza)).to be_true
end
to this,
let(:pizza) { build(:pizza) }
...
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How to repeat last action with movement?
Assume the content:
foo fnord bar;" >> /tmp/foo/derp
gnarf foo fnord bar;" >> /tmp/foo/derp
I want to jump to the " and delete to end of line and repeat that over the rest of lines.
Yet ...
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What is the fastest way to perform this change?
In my codes, I often have to do this kind of text editing:
u(:,:,:) = 0._dp
v(:,:,:) = 0._dp
temp(:,:,:) = 0._dp
To:
grid%u(0:nx,0:ny,0:nz) = 0._dp
grid%v(0:nx,0:ny,0:nz) = 0._dp
grid%temp(0:nx,0:...
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Repeat replace one character (r) for next occurence
I'm using r a lot (e.g. for replacing " with ' when refactoring code). Is there an easy way to do something like this:
For text: values = ["a", "b", "c"].
Place cursor on first ", press r' to change ...
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How to disable key repeat in vim?
I am currently try to break inefficient habits, and one bad habit is to keep a button pressed, e.g. keep pressing j to move down approximately 10 lines instead of moving exactly 10 lines down with 10j,...
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Delete multiple lines by address
I was looking at this vimgolf challenge, and I thought it would be nice to delete specific lines by address. I know I can do this with :<line_number>d, but is there a way to list multiple line ...
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Cycle through edit command history [duplicate]
In Vim, i can cycle through edit locations with g, and g;, and jump to locations with Ctrl-I and Ctrl-O. Is there any way to similarly cycle through edit commands? This would be something similar to ...
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How can I repeat last Ex-mode command in normal mode?
I'm looking for something like . or @@ that will work in normal mode for repeating the last Ex-mode command.
As per the rule of the XY problem, I'll also state the broader goal:
I have a fancy regex ...
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Deleting a Latex command multiple times
Indexing a Latex document, I added a lot of \index[]{} commands in \footcite prenotes. It's stupid! Anyway, in my code I have a lot of :
\footcite[blabla blabla\index[n]{something} blabla.][postnote]{...
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Execute normal command over range
For a file looking like this:
2 AD,42.546245,1.601554,Andorra,376
3 AE,23.424076,53.847818,United Arab Emirates,971
4 AF,33.93911,67.709953,Afghanistan,93
5 AG,17.060816,-61.796428,...
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How can I use the `global` command to prepend 'document headers' to 'document lines'?
I am trying to change a text file with data in 'document' form into unnormalized csv. The data are a list of hymn authors ('document header') and for each author a list of one or more hymns they have ...
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Can I repeat the last UI command?
I know that I can use . to repeat the last editing command.
Is there a way to repeat the last UI manipulation command?
For example, I can write 10<C-W>- to shrink a window by ten rows.
It'd be ...
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Understanding line reference differences through :g/^/norm and through :%norm
Let's say that I have the following very simple file
a
b
c
d
e
and I've decided that I want to add empty lines after each line. Several different methods immediately jump to my mind. We might just ...
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How can I prevent (or at least prompt to confirm) absurdly large numbers from being used to prefix commands?
It doesn't happen as often as you'd think, but it happens occasionally, and I don't even own a cat.
Basically if you mash the number row or numpad and then happen to hit a keycombo that triggers a ...
