Thus spake Gerald Lai on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 04:43:55PM -0700 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 20:16]:
[...] > > > >What would be the best approach to have vim do this for me? > > One way is to use the Visual Block. To invoke it, type Ctrl-v or Ctrl-q > in Normal mode, when your cursor is on the first ">". Then move the > cursor down to highlight what I call a "visual strip". You can also type > "G" to highlight a visual strip till the end line of the file. > > Then move the cursor to the right by one character. This will highlight > a box of "> "'s. Hit "x" to delete that block. > > You can also use visual strips for ex commands like ":y" and ":d", and for > normal commands like "I", "A" or "c". I like this too.. funny I did not figure it out myself :-/ The nice thing about it being that you don't have to think - means less overhead on my personal cpu.. Also you can use it just as easily to get rid of some trailing character(s) in col. 72 or whatever - such as a column of !'s or |'s.. if the original text was for some reason inside an 'ascii box' or such like.. [...] > [snip] > > Yes, that's a good idea: > > :%s/^> // I was having trouble with this.. thought that I had to escape the '^' meta character for some reason.. and I got caught in a nasty tangle of /'s and \'s.. > > HTH :) Thanks much.. It's a bit embarrassing to come up with all these silly questions but sometimes you're just stuck and wish someone with experience could give you a hint.. so all the help I've been getting for free here lately is much appreciated. cga
