On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 at 11:27am, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
> Just getting to email now, so this is essentially a consolidated reply
> to all who answered...
>
>
>>> Speaking of which, is there any quicker way to visually select the
>>> entire file, analogous to ^A in other systems?
>
>> To copy the entire file to the system clipboard, you can do:
>> :%y+
>> Rpelace y with d if you want to cut instead of copy.
>> Replace + with * if you want to use middle-click to paste (on X11.)
>
> That's about the shortest I could come up with, ":%d+", to do what I
> want, but still not quite what I was looking for. I was kindasorta
> expecting a normal-mode solution, like 'gg*V' or something, to avoid
> even toggling the shift key all that much (think "baud" vs "bps").
>
> The only thing I really use it for is to c&p from LookOut's email to
> 'vim', then back again. So I ^A the entire reply, dump it into a new
> 'vim' window, edit it to insert a new quotelevel, etc., then want to
> "^A" it to get it back into LO. But it's repetitive/frequent enough to
> make me want to shorten the command further.
>
> Ain't "hung up" on visual mode or anything (hi Tim!), it's just that
> when I don't want headers at the top, I can start from the bottom ('G'),
> make my way to the top in visual ('1G'), then down my way past the
> headers to *not* grab them when putting it all back. Or v/v if I want
> to skip the signature. Etc.
>
> The 'vim' instance used to do the editing is going to disappear
> immediately after, so I'm not concerned about cut vs copy, etc.
> Everything goes into the "clipboard", then dumped back into LO's reply
> window, so a plain ':%d' won't work.
>
>
> In a similar vein, I was never much on "visual" vs *real* 'vi' commands,
> but it does come in handy to delete subroutines, etc. Eg, for the
> format
>
> sub sub1(){
> ...
> }
>
> sub sub2(){
> ...
> }
>
> all you need to do it find the initial "sub", then "V$%jj" to grab the
> whole thing, and delete it, copy it, cut it, etc. Go into visual,
> end-of-line (for the leading '{'), '%' (for the matching '}'), down a
> coupla lines to grab trailing whitespace, then bam!, it's gone. And
> it's a visual confirmation to make sure you don't go nuts and delete
> more than you intended.
>
> Point being that for some operations, visual mode is a lot more
> reassuring.
Have you looked at the below Vim tip?
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=805
Read through the comments as well as the original tip has been improved
over a few iterations in the comments.
--
Hari
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