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Delete n lines skip 1 line script
Very simple approach:
Move to the first line you want to delete.
Record a macro: qa3ddjq
Repeat it with a high number: 1000@a
Step three will repeat the macro a thousand times or until an error is ...
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Delete n lines skip 1 line script
The easiest solution to me would be:
:%norm j3dd
That is:
%: for every line
norm: run the following keys as if in normal mode
j3dd: go down one line then delete 3 lines
So from the first line, go ...
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Repeat motion easily
Since you mentioned cursor movement but not ; there is of course
; Repeat latest f, t, F or T [count] times.
, Repeat latest f, t, F or T in opposite direction [count] times.
This is very ...
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How can I insert a character repeatedly until even with next line?
Short answer
v
$
r
*
:help v_r
Longer answer
y
y
p
/
P
Duplicate line to below/above
2
l
Move to position from where to overwrite (in this case 3rd column ← 2 to ...
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Repeat last yank
If you include the flag y in the cpoptions option;
set cpoptions+=y
then yanks may be repeated using .. See :help cpo-y:
*cpo-y*
y A yank command can be redone ...
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Repeat last normal command
. repeats the last change, and usually does what you want (combine with, e.g., cgn for a great sequence). For registers, @@ repeats the last register. @: repeats the last ex command. This is ...
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Unexpected behavior using "<count>J" to join multiple lines
After further research and office discussion, I realize this is indeed the expected behavior. According to the vim help:
J Join [count] lines, with a minimum of two lines.
I've always thought [...
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Repeat complex actions over a number of lines (in Vim)
I like using a macro recording for this kind of task, since that allows me to use the Vim commands I know already to move and edit, rather than having to write (and debug!) regexps to accomplish the ...
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How to delete blocks of text which contain a specific string?
You can use a macro:
Once your search register is set to Subject: Bar you can empty a register (q in this example) and record the following macro:
qqq
qqndap@qq
The first line empties the q ...
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Delete n lines skip 1 line script
You have some great solutions already available. Here is another one:
:g/^/if line('.')%4!=1|:s/^/DELETE ME/|endif
:g/^DELETE ME/d
First, we perform an action on every line (:g matching against the ^...
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How to apply a macro for every single matching pattern
Another way that also works across files is to use :h :vimgrep with g flag:
Without the 'g' flag each line is added only once.
With 'g' every match is added.
The workflow is:
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Replay a vim macro until specified line number
I think you can use this for specific line
:10,15 norm! @d
If you want something like until line, you can use this instead
:.,15 norm! @d
Or a more visual way, by selecting the lines you want to ...
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Execute command for multiple files
First, you are running Vim, not Vi, because the latter does not offer the retab command.
Assuming the file should be modified (that is what x does below), you can pipe the commands to Ex improved mode ...
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Execute command for multiple files
You can use the -c argument in the command-line to run commands in Vim after opening a file. You can pass it multiple times to run the several separate commands. Once you run the editing commands, you'...
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How do I run a shell command periodically and silently from within Vi?
As @ChristianBrabandt mentions in the comments, presuming you're using a reasonably recent version of Vim, you could do this with a timer.
In fact, you can virtually just copy-paste the example in ...
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How to apply a register to a command?
This is not exactly what you want, but you could visually select your lines, then run this global command:
g/^/exe 'norm! "adiwD' | exe 'norm! '.@a.'p'
├───┘│ ├────┘
...
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Run a command on every match of a search (not on the line)
You can use the expression register, see :h sub-replace-expression:
:s/search/\=MyFunction(submatch(0))/
The submatch() function can also be used directly inside the function, which would make the ...
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Bundling command sequences together for repeat (.)
Vim only stores the last executed command, and only that gets repeated by .; in my opinion, anything else would be difficult to handle.
If you feel the need to repeat the Yp combo as a single entity, ...
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Repeat motion easily
As the comments to your post indicate, the best solution to this question is usually to find a different approach, like vim-easymotion*.
However, on the general topic of repeating a normal mode ...
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Down and . X times?
You can use a macro, though it does require a (small) bit of planning ahead:
qqdt}jq4@q
will work, assuming your cursor is starting on the first line on the space after value:. Here's an explanation:...
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Down and . X times?
I would use a macro:
Juste before the deletion do:
qqdf)jq
Which means:
qq start to record a macro in the register q
df) your deletion
j go down one line
q stop recording the macro
Then you can ...
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Repeat complicated motions
Plugin repmo-vim by Andy Wakula
The plugin #2174 listed on https://www.vim.org/scripts is, according to the description, outdated:
2016 Nov 22 started a new script at https://github.com/Houl/vim-...
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Valid usecases for `=` macro register
So let's begin by quoting the doc :h @=
When typing the '=' after " or CTRL-R the cursor moves to the command-line,
where you can enter any expression (see |expression|). All normal
command-line ...
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Delete n lines skip 1 line script
I know this is the vi channel, but to me this is a sed problem.
sed -ne 'p;n;n;n' <file >newfile
So you can wrangle it into a vi solution:
:0
!Gsed -ne 'p;n;n;n'
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How to apply a macro for every single matching pattern
Search for your pattern using /, then play your macro @@—you can record a new macro for this by doing
/pattern<CR>qqn@aq
Assuming @a holds your original macro. Then @q will jump to the next ...
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Is it possible to properly repeat a visual replacement?
Explanation of the problem
The visual put + repeat pattern is quite broken in vim. Internally, vim implements visual puts as a literal visual delete followed by a normal mode put. However, only the ...
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Understanding the use of ., in the global command
The . and , here are not Normal-mode commands for repeating last change and repeating last line motion...
Instead, the command executed by a :g is actually an Ex command, same as those you type in the ...
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Unexpected behavior using "<count>J" to join multiple lines
It is the described behaviour.
:help J states
Join [count] lines, with a minimum of two lines
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remap ':' to maintain last command, and erase all char if any key other than <CR> was pressed
The following should solve your issue:
nnoremap <expr> : ShowLastCmd()
function! ShowLastCmd()
echohl ModeMsg
echo ':' . getreg(':')
echohl None
while 1
try
let char = ...
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Repeat not only last command
From what I understand Vim doesn’t have a way of repeating normal mode history use a while back, unless you write it out to a file:
https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/587/13848
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