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Re: some vi equivalents please?
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rustom |
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Re: some vi equivalents please? |
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Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:08:47 -0800 (PST) |
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On Nov 5, 6:41 pm, Ken Goldman <kg...@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> rustom wrote:
> > 1. In vi I can delete a line that contains a <pat> with :g/<pat>/d
>
> Others have posted the best way do do this. However, rather than
> searching for infrequently used commands, I typically just define a
> keyboard macro and replay it.
>
> In this case, the macro would be:
>
> - search for the pattern
> - go to the beginning of the line
> - kill the line
Well... I have some technical and some non-technical responses to
this.
Technical 1.
Your macro is not equivalent to the vi :g/<pat>/d unless it is
embedded into a loop. The loop could be programmatic or interactive
(keep doing Cx e)
Technical 2.
Overall it turns out faster (without the infrequently used flush-
lines) to
Save-buffer in emacs
Finish off the 1 liner in vi
revert-buffer in emacs
Non-technical 1
I work in an environment where I am the old-timer using the strange
old clunky emacs. I have a hell of a time convincing my half-my-age
coworkers to use emacs. Confirming the clunkyness (because I dont
know a command) does not help my cause :-)
Non-technical 2
Funnily enough, this requirement came up in a large scale edit that
required adding a single line to 200 classes in 37 files. I did this
(for these coworkers) by writing 3 elisp functions that implemented an
iterator that sequentially went through the 200 classes. Producing
the file:lineNo list of those 200 cases was where the original request
(for deleting lines) came up.
So, no, Im not averse to writing emacs macros or elisp code; just like
to use the right tool for the job.
- Re: some vi equivalents please?, (continued)
- Re: some vi equivalents please?, rustom, 2008/11/01
- Re: some vi equivalents please?, rustom, 2008/11/01
- RE: some vi equivalents please?, Drew Adams, 2008/11/01
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- Re: some vi equivalents please?, rustom, 2008/11/02
- RE: some vi equivalents please?, Drew Adams, 2008/11/02
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- Re: some vi equivalents please?, rustom, 2008/11/03
- RE: some vi equivalents please?, Drew Adams, 2008/11/03
- Re: some vi equivalents please?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2008/11/03
Re: some vi equivalents please?, Ken Goldman, 2008/11/05
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