Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?}
On 2018-03-07, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 03/05/2018 04:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 03/04/2018 11:27 AM, Curt wrote:
>>> On 2018-03-04, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>>> My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ.
>>>> To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have
>>>> "Re:" in the Subject into a single file {used standard SeaMonkey tools}.
>>>>
>>>> Using a text editor's search&replace function I've placed "KEY1" at the
>>>> beginning of the body of each message. Similarly, I've placed "KEY2" at
>>>> the end of each body.
>>>>
>>>> Searches led to <http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_16.html> which
>>>> describes tools to do word frequency tasks, primarily with bash
>>>> builtins.
>>>>
>>>> First I need to eliminate the irrelevant text between "KEY2" of the
>>>> previous message and "KEY1" of the message of interest. It should be
>>>> straight forard to do in BASIC.
>>>
>>> vim (hit escape to get into command mode)
>>>
>>> :/KEY2/+1;/KEY1/-1d
>>>
>>> will delete everything between KEY2 and KEY1, excluding the
>>> matching lines.
>>
>> Haven't looked up the syntax you referenced. HOWEVER, an initial browse
>> of vim.org immediately led to a half dozen pages of interest which an
>> additional half dozen (at least) things that are inherent in vim that I
>> had not mentioned. As today should be chilly and damp, I suspect where I
>> will be warm, dry, and becoming educated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>[snip]
>
> I've installed GVIM using Synaptic.
> I have browsed vim.org but in the abundance of documentation I haven't
> appropriate introductory material aimed at my mindset - I learn by doing.
>
> For example, GVIM launches with an unreadably small font.
> I have found the instructions to do ":set guifont=*".
> However I wish to set things appropriately in ~/.vimrc .
> I ended up in <http://vimhelp.appspot.com/> a sample script to insert.
> However I could find no links to how to find how find a list of
> designation of a font-face.
>
> I've not yet parsed the example given me
>>>> :/KEY2/+1;/KEY1/-1d
>
> That may be longer relevant as my reading at vim.org has suggested
> better ways to approach my problem [ vim appears to have a world-view
> similar to Digital Equipment's TECO which I used ~40 years ago].
>
> Where should I be looking for:
> 1. how to parse the given example.
http://vimregex.com/
The above link seems edifying.
3.2 Range of Operation, Line Addressing and Marks
...
/Section 1/+,/Section 2/-
- all lines between Section 1 and Section 2, non-inclusively, i.e. the
lines containing Section 1 and Section 2 will not be affected.
It would appear the 1 (in '/KEY2/+1' and '/KEY1/-1d') is superfluous in
the sense that if you omit the number after + or - it defaults to 1 (one).
Maybe it's better to be explicit.
'd' means delete.
> 2. how to have found it as a possible solution to my problem statement?
You said text editor so I thought of vim. I used a search engine to look
up how to do it.
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