On 2007-04-25, "Srinivas Rao. M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 21:11 -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2007-04-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A similiar problem I had was solved previously. Now
> > > I got stuck in the "advanced version" of this. Suppose
> > > I have the following text (:set list) :
> > >
> > >
> > > ljdh $
> > > laskjdl $
> > > sdj $
> > > aslkdjldjlad$
> > > a $
> > > askdj $
> > > askdjlsd $
> > > aks $
> > > lkasjdsdjlllljadl $
> > >
> > > and I want this with less plugins, keystrokes, function
> > > definitions etc as possible....
> > >
> > > ljdh = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > laskjdl = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > sdj = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > aslkdjldjlad = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > a = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > askdj = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > askdjlsd = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > aks = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > > lkasjdsdjlllljadl = spacequest( vim, text );$
> > >
> > > I (with set ve=all or set ve=block) to marked a column
> > > with a visual block and tried "r" (which works "only" for
> > > one character to be inserted) and R (which kills ALL my
> > > text).
> > >
> > > How can I solve this problem ?
> >
> > This particular case of all the added text being the same is pretty
> > easy to solve. Start the way you did before, by typing Ctrl-V and
> > highlighting a column. Then instead of typing 'r' to replace a
> > single character, type 's' to substitute the selected text with an
> > arbitrarily-long string and follow the 's' with
> >
> > = spacequest( vim, text );
> >
> > and finish by typing <Esc>. See
> >
> > :help visual-operators
> >
> > for more operations you can perform on visually-selected areas.
> Hi,
> Do you have any (similar) solution for aligning each column of data.
> What i want is to tabulate a chunk of data in to rows and columns.
>
> i.e i have text like this:
>
> (1.31 and 1.32) tool-ch$
> (1.3 and 1.5) tool-ch$
> (1.3 and 1.40) tool-ch$
> (1.301 and 1.401) tool-ch$
> (1.2 and 1.4) proje$
>
> what i want is :
>
> (1.31 and 1.32) tool-ch$
> (1.3 and 1.5) tool-ch$
> (1.3 and 1.40) tool-ch$
> (1.301 and 1.401) tool-ch$
> (1.2 and 1.4) proje$
I don't have any solutions that are built into vim and are as simple
as the one above. What I would do is install Dr. Chip's Align
plugin,
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=294
Then highlight the rows to be aligned (using the V command), type
:Align \
and hit Enter. When I did that, I got exactly the result you said
you wanted. Note that a space follows that backslash; that is
telling Align to use a single space as the character to align. Note
also that that command will appear on the command line as
:'<,'>Align \
because vim will automatically append "'<,'>" when you type a colon
in visual mode.
Regards,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mobile Broadband Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
