> Wow! Ok. the first seems clear enough, but a little tedious for the
> number of lines I have (it's delimited text, so I could always note
> the line number, %, note the line number, then use that search).
>
> The latter seems like dark magic. I'll meditate upon it while
> consulting the book of :help
>
> Thanks for the super speedy reply!
>
>> <c-c>/<bslash>%><c-r>=line("'<lt>")-1<cr>l<bslash>%<lt><c-r>=line("'>")+1<cr>l
It's only magic until you understand it :)
It basically uses the control+R followed by the equals-sign to
insert the evaluation of expressions to determine the lines just
outside your selection:
:help c_CTRL-R_=
The expressions are
line("'<")-1
(the number of the line before the start of the selection) and
line("'>")+1
(the number of the line after the end of the selection)
So it just is inserting those line numbers into the {} blocks in:
\%>{start-1}l\%<{end+1}l
with some escaping of things like back-slashes and less-than signs.
Hope this helps pull back the mystery of the line-noise above.
-tim
