Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
Per Steve Kirkendall in comp.editors, this works: :g/\s/j One must admire the beauty and simplicity of this. On 11/25/00, 03:13:48PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: Greetings. I have a vim file which, in general, resembles this: Hello world Hello world I want to concatenate Hello and world. fmt won't do because Hello ends with a newline character. I've tried the following (in vim 5.7), which does not work: :g/\s*/!!tr '\n' ' ' The ex global command locates the lines with the white space, but the tr command won't translate the newline to a space. The man page for tr shows \n as the special character for a newline. Any thoughts? TIA John
Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
:g/$/j worked for me David - Original Message - From: "John P. Verel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mutt User List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 8:36 PM Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question Per Steve Kirkendall in comp.editors, this works: :g/\s/j One must admire the beauty and simplicity of this. On 11/25/00, 03:13:48PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: Greetings. I have a vim file which, in general, resembles this: Hello world Hello world I want to concatenate Hello and world. fmt won't do because Hello ends with a newline character. I've tried the following (in vim 5.7), which does not work: :g/\s*/!!tr '\n' ' ' The ex global command locates the lines with the white space, but the tr command won't translate the newline to a space. The man page for tr shows \n as the special character for a newline.
Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
Actually you could search for any present character on the line. For example: :g/./j :g/^/j :g/$/j :g/[a-z]/j would all work -- David --- richSOB.com - Original Message - From: "davidturetsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mutt User List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:17 PM Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question :g/$/j worked for me David - Original Message - From: "John P. Verel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mutt User List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 8:36 PM Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question Per Steve Kirkendall in comp.editors, this works: :g/\s/j One must admire the beauty and simplicity of this. On 11/25/00, 03:13:48PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: Greetings. I have a vim file which, in general, resembles this: Hello world Hello world I want to concatenate Hello and world. fmt won't do because Hello ends with a newline character. I've tried the following (in vim 5.7), which does not work: :g/\s*/!!tr '\n' ' ' The ex global command locates the lines with the white space, but the tr command won't translate the newline to a space. The man page for tr shows \n as the special character for a newline.
Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
On 11/26/00, 10:17:08PM -0500, davidturetsky wrote: :g/$/j Yes, it does. But I can't figure out why it should. $ indicates last line in stdin, right? So, how does this work?
Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
The command says, 'search for every line where an end of line is present and join it with the next line' When used in pattern matching, $ is a reference to the end of the line -- David --- richSOB.com - Original Message - From: "John P. Verel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "davidturetsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Mutt User List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 11:03 PM Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question On 11/26/00, 10:17:08PM -0500, davidturetsky wrote: :g/$/j Yes, it does. But I can't figure out why it should. $ indicates last line in stdin, right? So, how does this work?
