Re: "man" command made easy? ->vim
"Actually, I'm not 100% sure that vim supports backreferences
like that (the \1 in the replacement text). I know that Python's and
Perl's regex engines do. I think I've heard/read that vim does do
backreferences."
Vim does support backreferences, "h: regex" will give more details.There was
a recent talk on
e-mail-list(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/19141)
about the small diferences between perl regex and vim regex.
From: D-Man To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: Dave Sherohman Subject:
Re: "man" command made easy? Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:02:31 -0400
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man
uttered: | > | > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] | > |
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > |
Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and | >
| then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start | > |
> 2 hours!? Wow. Learn vi(m) or some other advanced editor. If you | >
have that foo.txt with each filename on its own line the following | > will
take very little time to create a web page of links out of it. | | Vim is
indeed my editor of choice. The 2 hours was mostly because I got |
distracted reading & checking out the stuff I found. But my edits
Oh, ok. That's better. Two hours reading docs, not two hours creating HTML
links.
(BTW, thanks guys for those other generation techniques)
| weren't nearly as slick as what you suggest. | | Thanks to a conversation
at a BAD (Bay Area Debian) meeting last week, I | was clued in to visual
mode. Here's what I did: | 1. At the first line, type 'v' to enter visual
mode. | 2. Scroll to the last line, type ':' | 3. Vim starts the command
text for you. Append | s/^/ DESCR <\/a>/g | | This turned a line like |
/usr/share/doc/apache/manual/mod/index.html | | into | DESCR
Yes, visual mode is great when you want to operate on a subset of the
buffer. The '%' at the beginning of my command means use the whole buffer.
| But your technique for capturing the original line & using it for the |
link description is very cool & will save me much effort for my updates.
Thanks. Actually, I'm not 100% sure that vim supports backreferences like
that (the \1 in the replacement text). I know that Python's and Perl's
regex engines do. I think I've heard/read that vim does do backreferences.
BTW, I probably spent more time making my sample commands a little shorter
than you spent with your slightly simpler version. Also, the simpler the
command is the more likely it is correct ;-).
-D
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