Matthias Pitzl wrote:
I don't really know how to do this but im sure that there's a solution.
I have some file and i need to insert a number before each line and a
separator. The number is the line number. Is there any way in vim to do
this easily?
Hello!
There's a number of ways to go about doing this. In addition to those
mentioned already, there's
also visincr, available at
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=670. Its more often
used to help with getting a portion of a file incremented...
abc[0]= 1
abc[0]= 1
abc[0]= 1
and transforming it to
abc[0]= 1
abc[1]= 2
abc[2]= 3
but it certainly can also be used to do an entire file:
:%s/^/1: /
1G
ctrl-v
$
:I
translated: place "1: " at the beginning of every line in the file.
Goto the beginning of file.
Start visual-block mode.
Goto the end of file.
:I (which will appear as :'<,'>I) transform selected numbers to an
incremented list.
Visincr can also generate incremented (or decremented) lists of dates,
alphabetic (a b c d) enumerations, months, days, etc.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
