Hello - I want to change lines of the form
able|baker|charlie|dog|easy to baker|able|charlie|dog|easy With the cursor on the line I can do this with the command :.s/\(\[^\|\]*\)\(|\)\(\[^\|\]*\)\(|\)\(.*\)/\3\2\1\4\5/ which looks like a diagram for the cutting edge of a tunnelling machine. In order to do this more than once I would like to be able to represent this with a typable command such as "swap12", preferably in the .vimrc file assuming that this initialises Vim when Vim is started up. Is there a way of doing this in Vim? I might have expected to be able to use 'map' or 'ab' or 'command' but these all fail. I tend to get a 'trailing characters' error message but it does not tell me which characters are trailing or what the objection is to having trailing characters. I am working in Windows XP so line-end character incompatibilities may be complicating this matter. It may be that I have over- or under-escaped some characters - is there a clear account of the subject of escaping in the Vim literature? Regards _John Sampson_ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4262 (20090720) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
