Quinn Strahl wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 August 2015 01:31:34 UTC-4, Justin M. Keyes wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Quinn Strahl <qstr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A difference in behaviour between :g and :<range>normal recently frustrated >>> me, and I wonder if it's up for debate: >>> >>> :g does a pass on matching lines and marks them before performing the >>> operation; this allows it to be generally undeterred by operations that >>> include addition/deletion of lines. >>> >>> :<range>normal does not do this, and as a result, it can get "thrown off" >>> by such operations. For (a trivial) example, on the hypothetical file: >>> >>> foo >>> bar >>> baz >>> >>> Performing :1,3normal yyp would produce the following result: >>> >>> foo >>> foo >>> foo >>> foo >>> bar >>> baz >>> >>> Whereas the more intuitive result would be: >>> >>> foo >>> foo >>> bar >>> bar >>> baz >>> baz >>> >>> There does exist a workaround, in the form of :<range>g/^/normal yyp -- >>> simply using :g in a way guaranteed to match every line in the desired >>> range -- but this is a bit of a compositional kludge. >>> >>> Would it be feasible to add the marking behaviour of :g to :normal, or is >>> that not worth implementing / a feature? >> Why do you want them to behave the same? They serve different >> purposes. Or rather, :g serves a purpose, and :normal is behaving in >> the typical way for a range command that performs edits/changes. >> >> >> Justin M. Keyes > I have on many occasions run into situations where it would be very handy if > :normal worked the way :g does with respect to how it handles changes in > number of lines during operation, and I have not run into any case (nor can I > imagine one) where the current behaviour is favourable. It seems less > intuitive and less useful for it to behave this way. > Why not use
:[range]g/pattern/norm whatever Regards, Chip Campbell -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
