BPJ wrote:
I'm trying to do a substitution in a 'horizontal/virtual column range'.
I have an ASCII table where the columns are separated by tab
characters (for now). I want to wrap the contents (which contain
space (U+0020) and \S characters, being of unequal length of
course!) of some specific table columns in asterisks (think
Markdown emphasis). I thought I could use a range and \%v to
match the text between two screen virtual columns and then use an
expression with substitute() to wrap instances of \T\+
inside the matched screen column range, something like
'a,'b s/\%13v.*\%46v/\=substitute(submatch(0),'\T\+','*&*','g')/
but apparently I've misunderstood \%v because I get no match.
So what is the right way to do this? I'm not looking forward to
changing three columns on some 70 lines manually!
You might be able to make use of vis.vim
(http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#VIS) where you define a
region using visual-block mode (ctrl-v, move) and a :B command.
You might find Christian Brabandt's nrrwregion plugin of use (search for
it on http://vim.sf.net).
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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