From: "Rodolfo Borges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Doing something til specific column Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:07:11 -0300
> I tried something like this: > > :%s/^\(Chapter\ [0-9]\+:\ .*\)\%<30c$/\1\./g > > I works fine, but needs to be repeated until no more matches are found. > I'm sure you guys more experencied with Vim scripting will be able to > complete my idea. > > -- > Rodolfo Borges > Hi Rodolfo ! The "Chapter*"-thingy was only meant as an example. The task I want to do is: repeat overwriting (or may be inserting) charcters with a previously given character starting from the current cursor position until a perviously given number of the end-column is reached. Thanks a lot for your help anyway ! :) keep hacking! mcc
