Questions tagged [repeated-commands]
Questions about replaying the same command. This includes the dot command (.), @ macros, @: and similar methods.
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Delete n lines skip 1 line script
I want to create a basic Vim script that simply deletes n lines, skips 1 line and repeats until the end of the document. I don't care about specific matches, I just want to delete the line. For ...
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How can I view and edit my recording (i.e. recorded macro)?
I'm using complex repeats to record my operations (qq to record, some operations, q to stop) and I did a mistake.
It is possible to see what I've recorded and correct the mistake, instead of doing it ...
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Execute command for multiple files
I often want to run multiple vim commands on multiple files.
Consider the files file1.txt, file2.txt, and file3.txt: I might want to run :retab and then some :%s/ /, / for instance.
How can I "...
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How to repeat an insert at the end of a line?
I'm quite used to the very basic action of inserting some text, entering normal mode, moving to somewhere else I'd like the same text, and hitting . to do so.
This doesn't work if the insert needs to ...
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Repeat last normal command
Well, there is ; to repeat the last move in some cases.
There is the . to repeat last change.
But if I just did za or @a, is there a way to repeat it? I guess such a mechanism should ignore plain ...
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@: does not work to repeat the :qa command
I open the diff files between 2 code revisions using git difftool. I can use :qa to close the current diff and go to the next one. Rather than pressing :qa repeatedly, I would like to use @:, but I ...
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How could I make this mapping to a function repeatable? [duplicate]
I have a mapping that comments/uncomments lines like 5gc to comment/uncomment five lines, and I would like to make it repeatable with ..
Here is my mapping and the function it uses:
function! Comment()...
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How to replace more than one character without entering insert mode?
I have a file with a line that looks like this:
foofoo.xy.barbar
I want to change the xy to gh. I tried to do 2r -> gh, but obviously that didn't work, as it replaced the xy with gg and then moved ...
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How to apply a register to a command?
I have the given file
4 apples
2 bananas
6 peaches
3 grapes
1 pineapple
5 pears
3 tomatoes
What I want to do is to receive the following result instead:
apple apple apple apple
banana banana
peach ...
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How do you repeat the last ex command in a macro?
If I do qq:diffthis<CR><C-w><C-w>@:q, the macro @q does not work as expected, since the command line history is not updated when ex commands are performed in macros, and ...
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How to repeat a command in command-line mode
I need to repeat the delete of matching lines in vscode-vim. Unfortunately the g has not been implemented yet, so I'm trying to figure out a way to repeat the same change in command-line mode using ...
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Repeat a mapping (like a macro) with dot
There seems to be quite a few questions around g@, its quite a confusing topic. And I can't get it to work.
I created these two mappings to edit a line from python dictionary form to variable ...
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Repeat bracket insertion of auto_pairs_gentle with dot commmand
I have auto_pairs_gentle plugin installed and vim-repeat but the bracket insertion automatically generated by auto_pairs_gentle are not repeated by the dot command.
e.g.: Suppose I insert f(x) by ...
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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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Understanding the use of ., in the global command
While doing some updates to my .vimrc file today, I stumbled across this for condensing blank lines (really empty lines) into a single empty line.
:map ;b GoZ<Esc>:g/^$/.,/./-j<CR>Gdd
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Change some words into _
I often do ver_w some times to change words into blanks. I am making quiz this way. What I noticed is that this is a bit of a pain. The amount of work is not so heavy as to make it a macro, but cannot ...
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Mapping repeat last command
Apologies I am probably expressing myself very badly, that's also why 1 hour searching hasn't yielded the result I wanted yet...
Assume I want to replace true with false in a buffer.
:s/true/false
Now,...
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Is it possible to properly repeat a visual replacement?
It is possible in vanilla vim to:
visual select some number of characters, e.g. a variable name in code
type c to begin replacing selection in insert mode
type a replacement (variable name)
exit ...
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Is there a modification to make the dot command work intuitively in visual mode?
This is a repeat of a question that I asked on the Vim subreddit but didn't receive a helpful answer for. I think that this should be do-able, but I'm not good enough at Vimscript or Lua yet to ...
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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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Register for your last action (.)
Vim has a lot of useful registers from which you can access the contents of various actions. There's ": for the last command in the command line, "/ for the last search, ". for the last ...
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How to make dot replay embedded normal command? e.g in insert mode: <c-o>ysiw>Some<esc>
For example:
OpRef
^- cursor
I press <c-o>ysiw>Option<esc> in insert mode to get:
Option<OpRef>
I want to repeat this command with dot operator, but when I press dot it only ...
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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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Vim: is there a way to persist the last edit?
When you make a change, like ifooESC to insert the text foo, this can, of course, be repeated using ..
However, if you quit Vim, in spite of Vim saving all sorts of state, including the contents of ...
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How to do a motion without leaving history (in .)?
Often, you do a complicated motion, which you want to repeat soon by pressing . but carry out a simpler motion overwrites that one. Can I keep that complicated motion in . itself ?
Concrete example:
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Why does cw followed by ctrl-r register consist of two edits?
I did cwCtrl-Ra at the beginning of a word to paste the content of register a in its place. And this, I thought, is done entering insert mode only once; or at least, never going back to normal mode.
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Repeat complicated motions
I know that similar things were asked here several times. I know that to repeat a motion ; works. Unless it doesn't(in case there is count for example), but then repmo.vim usually works. And I know ...
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Repeat a command line multiple times
I want to turn
one two three four
into
'one' 'two' 'three' 'four'
(I have surround.vim)
I can do: ysiW', then do W. repeatedly until I've surrounded all words in the line
But I would like to repeat ...
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Vim: Append to each line in a "[I" query
I have a large config file, where many different instances of a particular config format appear. I would like to take every line where a particular word appears and add some text after it.
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How can I repeat a custom function mapped using `vnoremap` using something similar to the dot (`.`) operator?
I have this custom function in my ~/.vimrc mapped to Visual mode using vnoremap.
After having executed the function using <leader><space>, how execute it again using something similar to ...
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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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Conditional search and replace using repeated macro or commands
I want to search for a keyword, and replace a word in the line that is not a search word. I thought macros may be a good way to do it, but I am open to any methods.
I have something like,
blah blah
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How to use macros or any other way to add @Column and turn the below code into snake_case from camelCase?
Say that I have a java class with these fields(included only few fields, but the idea is that there could many more fields).
public class Entity {
private String firstName;
private String ...
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Repeating a combination of commands mapped to a single key
I have a mapping to "Stamp" text over the current word that cursor is on: nnoremap S "_diwP. When I do S and then try to repeat it with dot . only the last command will be repeated: P.
Is it possible ...
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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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How to repeat short sequences of characters
I want to replace a sequence of 6 hex digits (hex RGB) with new values, but I want to repeat a 2-tuple 3 times.
For example:
Start: #ea9081 (with the cursor on 'e')
Desired: #f0f0f0
I know I can ...
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Making operator insert and append repeatable
Is there an insert and append operation that can be followed by a text-object? I've found this plugins:
https://github.com/deris/vim-operator-insert
https://github.com/mwgkgk/vim-operator-insert
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How to replay ex commands in order?
I often have a situation where I will direct some output to a file then open it in vim and use ex commands (substitution, keep lines, delete lines, etc) to massage the output to a form I want. However ...
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Is it possible to prevent a mapping from being repeated with a prefix number (vim range)?
Sometimes it is possible to accidentally hit some numeric keys. I have a lot of binds and for most of them there is nothing to be gained by allowing them to repeat with a prefix. Let's suppose that ...
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Save & recall favourite vim :commands
I often find myself using the up arrow at the vim command prompt :
Is there a way to 'favourite' some? Or at least an easy way to search through previous commands?
For example, I couldn't remember ...
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Preventing an autocmd from overriding last cmd - :<bang><bang> (:!!)
I have an autocmd set up like this:
au BufWritePost *.sh,*.zsh,.zshrc silent exec "!ctags --language-force=sh %"
When I run :!!<cr> after saving a file, the command !ctags --language-force=sh %...
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Repeat last "change inside text object" command without the inserted text
Is there some way to repeat something like cit and be left in insert mode instead of automatically repeating the previously entered text?
For example, suppose I have the following lines:
<th>...
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Should the output of the -w {scriptout} flag work to replay actions using the -s {scriptin} flag?
According to the :help startup-options, this is -w's behviour
-w {scriptout} All the characters that you type are recorded in the file
"scriptout", until you exit Vim. This is ...
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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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Reduce size of undo file
I had a very large (14 digit) decimal number in my (Windows) clipboard. I had vim open in normal mode on the command line at the time. Accidentally, I pressed some key/mouse combination that caused ...
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Replay a vim macro until specified line number
Suppose caret is on the line 10 and I've recorded macros @d.
I need to replay macros until line 25. If I know that macros move caret one line per execution, I can calculate that it should be executed ...
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Repeat <Leader> mapping without having to press/release full combination
Similar to this question, I want to be able to resize my splits in a repeatable manner, but without having to use a plugin. I currently use the mapping:
nnoremap <Leader>q <C-w>10<
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Find out last used text object
I'm trying to figure out a way to make a repeatable operator insert. To do so I'm trying to make use of tpope/repeat. My idea is to set a repeatable call that repeats the last operation, repeating the ...
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What happens when error occurs during cdo?
:h :cdo says:
When an error is detected execution stops.
The last buffer (or where an error occurred) becomes
the current buffer.
Let's see what really happens:
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How to apply a macro for every single matching pattern
Macros can be repeated for every line matching a pattern with the global command as explained in this answer.
This applies to every single line, but is it possible to do it for every single match? so ...
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