Re: spotlight and cutting/copying/zapping

[Liu Hao]

在 2021-03-10 20:13, pepa65 写道:
> That's not quite true, I mailed in this on Dec.11:
>
> I use text editors a lot like this. The example I'm giving here is from
> a recent case where I was inspecting a CSV file, where I decided I
> wanted to move the second field (of 5) to the end of the line. If the
> length is fixed, you can use Mark and count lefts until you cut what you
> need to cut. In my case, I had 2 lengths, so I used a regex find twice
> for both lengths. But with the new feature, I would search for /,[^,]/
> then cut that, move to the end of the line and paste, for any length of
> the field!

Although this can be done with nano, it might be a better job for sed:

  sed -Ei 's/^([^,]*),([^,]*),(.*)$/\1,\3,\2/' somefile.csv


With nano it requires use of a macro:

   0. Ctrl-W
   1. ,<Enter> (to search for a comma)
   2. Meta-\ (to go to beginning of this line)
   3. Meta-Shift-: (to start recording)
   4. Meta-W (to go to the first comma)
   5. Meta-A (to select it)
   6. Meta-W (to go to the second comma, adding the second field to selection)
   7. Ctrl-K (to cut the selection)
   8. End (to go to end of this line)
   9. Ctrl-U (to paste it)
  10. Home (to go to beginning again)
  11. Down (to go to next line, if any)
  12. Meta-Shift-: (to finish recording)
  13. Repeat Meta-Shift-; until all lines have been processed.

If the new behavior is available, then 4-6 can be combined into a single operation, which will be a 
bit more convenient.


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Best regards,
Liu Hao

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