- cross-posted to:
- vim@lemmy.sdf.org
- cross-posted to:
- vim@lemmy.sdf.org
TL;DR: I use a vim like editor which tackles Vim’s greatest weakness: vis.
I’m still waiting for vimsc
Vi improved on steroids and cocaine
The time will come…
Isn’t your
x
covered by: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Power_of_gWell, partly.
g/pattern/cmd
will let you select lines where you want to applycmd
. For the use case I present in the post, it solves the problem. But theg
command, has the same limitation as every command invim
: it works on line only. On the other hand, thex
command insam
applies to the whole text. It doesn’t matter whether or not you have new lines in the pattern.Imagine that you have a text file, and you want to make sure that all paragraphs are separated by only one blank new line. I cannot think of a way of doing it easily in
vim
, while withsam
expressions, you can do:x/\n+/ c/\n\n/
and call it a day :) Another cool feature is that asx
is a command like any other, which applies to any predefined selection. For example, you can do stuff like that:Emacs is considered an advanced editor.
And while Vim users tend to swear on Emacs.
Emacs users are still convinced that Emacs rules!x/Emacs rules/ x/Emacs/ c/Sam/
This will first extract “Emacs rules” from the whole text, then extract “Emacs” from it, then change it to “Sam”. This means that you can narrow down the parts of the text that your commands will apply to portions of the line. The
g
command here would simply select the last line for you, but then you’d have to be very careful not to substitute the first occurrence of “Emacs”, leading to the following invim
(I’m exaggerating the command for the example of course) :g/Emacs rules/s/Emacs rules/Sam rules/