I have an input text as follows -
(command (and (A B C) ))
(command (and (D E F) ))
(command (and (G H I) ))
...
...
I would like to copy and paste part of text on the same line as
(command (and (A B C) (A B C)))
(command (and (D E F) (D E F)))
(command (and (G H I) (G H I)))
...
...
Will it be possible to do it using VI Editor automatically?
Update :
I think I missed one important point that the values A,B,C ... I... can have variable length. I just used them as symbols.
Thanks !
If all the lines are the same length and format as in your example:
With cursor anywhere on or inside of parens (A B C):
va(Ctrl+v
Now you have (A B C) selected and are in block select mode. Use any mechanism to block select downward. If it is a few lines, you can just move downward. If it is many you can add a count, or use a search (/) or end of file Shift+g.
Once you have selected all:
y/)Enterp
This will yank (y) the whole block, move to the close paren, and paste the block after it (p).
If the lines vary in length or otherwise cannot be reasonably selected as a block
You can use a pattern replacement. This is specific to your example, where we are looking for the pattern (A B C) where A, B and C are capital letters contained in parentheses and separated by spaces. We take a match of that pattern plus the following space, and replace it with the match of that pattern, a space, and the pattern match again.
:%s/\(([A-Z] [A-Z] [A-Z])\) /\1 \1/
Yes, several ways to do this in vim (as with most things). I would probably opt for a quick macro: go to the first line and hit qa from normal mode to start recording a macro named "a". Now do the edit on that line manually. Of course you'll want the operations to be generic, so don't just type in the values, use yank and put to copy it. Once the edit is done, escape to normal mode and press j to move down to the next line (this will set you up to run the macro on the next line). Hit q again to stop recording, then type #a to execute the macro on the next line, then hit it again to run it on the next line, etc. Or, once you do #a once, you can do ## to run the same macro again. You can also supply a count to ## to do is several times.
Alternatively, you can do a regex with the :s command, but it depends on what your lines actually look like and how good you are with regex.
(these work for me in vim)
using block select:
14l<C-v>jj6ly7lp
using macro (if lengths are varied):
record the macro using:
qqf(;vf)y;pj0q
and then repeat as neccessary:
100#q
works for a file with 100 lines
I combine the techniques given by bmearns and Kev.
So what I did is as follows
start recording the macro by q.
/( to find the opening bracket, so it goes to the second one.
n to goto the third one.
v to mark the visual block
/) to search for the end of the bracket
y to copy the visual block
n to goto next ) bracket
One time arrow key to go next to the closing bracket
p to paste the visual block
Down Arrow key to goto next line.
Home Key to goto first location of the next line.
q to stop recording the macro
#a to do the same operation for all the lines.
And it worked just completely fine !
Thanks a lot guys !
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I am using vim to log a lot of my day-to-day work. I usually have a lot of results with matrix. When I paste those at the end of the day I have pages of (sometimes) 0ne or 2 columns matrix
My question is how can I ask vim to programatically format
this:
R) DT = data.frame(x=rnorm(6),y=rnorm(6))
R) DT
x y
1 -0.0007499 0.7661
2 1.5559552 -0.6664
3 0.2082094 -0.1598
4 -0.1684766 -0.0536
5 3.1014233 -0.7439
6 0.1985104 2.0415
R) DT2 = data.frame(x=rnorm(7),y=rnorm(7))
R) DT2
x y
1 -0.005116 -0.4388
2 2.317381 0.6597
3 0.359883 0.4770
4 -1.426220 0.4911
5 0.468820 -0.3260
6 0.626147 -0.6254
7 -1.086660 2.1973
to this: side by side
R) DT = data.frame(x=rnorm(6),y=rnorm(6)) R) DT2 = data.frame(x=rnorm(7),y=rnorm(7))
R) DT R) DT2
x y x y
1 -0.0007499 0.7661 1 -0.005116 -0.4388
2 1.5559552 -0.6664 2 2.317381 0.6597
3 0.2082094 -0.1598 3 0.359883 0.4770
4 -0.1684766 -0.0536 4 -1.426220 0.4911
5 3.1014233 -0.7439 5 0.468820 -0.3260
6 0.1985104 2.0415 6 0.626147 -0.6254
7 -1.086660 2.1973
EDIT:
Thanks everybody, Kent solution worked, strangely before set ve=all my C-Q did not allow to select a block like
############
###############
#########
#########
#########
I couldn't reach the last column of the second line (using gvim on win XP).
Now works very well
I'll also use Ingo Karkat plugin"
try following steps:
:set ve=all
move cursor to beginning of line R) DT2 = data.frame(x=rnorm(7),y=rnorm(7))
press C-V, then using motion magic to select the 2nd block
press d
move cursor to the first line, the position you want to paste the 2nd block. type p
if your text is always like that format, you could try this mapping:
:nnoremap <leader>mt :let &ve='all'<cr>gg/^R)<CR>n<c-v>G$dgg$3lp
then you could in normal mode type <leader>mt to do the transformation.
NOTE
I have no experience of vim on windows... so you may have to change the mapping for windows blockwise selection. <C-Q> ? not sure.
I assume the first line of the file is R)...
this will paste the 2nd block to the position: 3 spaces after the end of 1st line, change the number 3 in mapping if you want to adjust it
The key to this is blockwise visual mode. Go to the beginning of the second block (what should become the right column next to the first block), press Ctrl+V (on Windows, this is often remapped to Ctrl+Q), create the selection with $ and jjj. . ., then delete with d. Then go to the first line of the first block, $ to go to the end of line, (optionally append padding whitespace), then paste with p . The second block should be pasted to the right of your cursor. Finally, you can delete the empty lines left where the second block was.
My UnconditionalPaste plugin simplifies this task: You can then simply delete the second block with dd or Vjjj. . .d, and force a paste in blockwise mode with the plugin's gdp mapping.
If you find a way to determine the size of the blocks (the } key, which jumps to the next empty line, may come handy here), you can then put all of the steps into a custom mapping.
I often navigate in vim by f x to find next occurrence of character 'x',
but overlook that there is a word (or more words) containing 'x' in between the word I want to edit and the beginning cursor position.
So i have to f x again, which is kind of annoying since there is this nice button ., which does repeat the last command. So is there a way to repeat f x with a single button press.
The command to repeat an f is ; (semicolon); , (comma) reverses the direction of the search.
Time has passed since I asked this question - nowadays I use vim-easymotion, which makes the need for ; almost unnecessary.
This plugin allows to jump to a certain letter directly - triggering the plugin makes all letters grey except for all 'x' on the screen - and those are replaced by red letters which you can press to jump directly to it.
To add to #Jeremiah Willcock answer, We can add count to f command to go to the nth occurrence [count]f{char}. For e.g.
2fx => goes to the second occurrence of x [if available]
similarly we can use the same counter to ; and ,. For e.g.
2; => goes to the second occurrence of last search [if available]
2, => goes to the second occurrence of last search in reverse [if available]
This is very useful when using it with c{motion}(change) or d{motion}(delete). For e.g. If we want to change or delete to 3rd occurrence of a char we can do
c3fx => change to 3rd occurrence of character x (included)
d3fx => delete to 3rd occurrence of character x (included)
I know how to copy to the clipboard but how can I append to it?
I use this in my code:
let #+ = my_expression
but that overwrites the clipboard.
I know that I can use the registers a-z to append to:
let #B = my_expression
which appends to register b, but what do I when I want to append to the clipboard?
use:
let #+ = #+ . my_expression
or shorter:
let #+ .= my_expression
Reference: :help :let.=
If you're not macro-ing, it's probably worth checking out registers as well. :help registers was mind-blowing.
In an oversimplified nutshell, there are 26 additional "customizable clipboards", called registers, where you can store text, starting with a and going through z.
You add text to a register in command mode by hitting ", naming the register (say f), and then typing the "motion" you want to select text.
NOTE: We're using the named f register here b/c it's probably under your left index finger. That is, f is picked just b/c it's handy. You could replace f with a or u or z or whatever throughout if you wanted.
Copying with a register (cursor at [T]):
Initial File State
This is my first line.
[T]his is my second line.
This is my third line.
Type "fyy in command mode to fill the register with one line (yy).
Type p (* see below) to immediately paste it from the default register.
Type "f to pick the f register and then p to paste from the f register directly. Right now f and default as the same.
So the result of typing "fyyp is exactly the same as having typed yyp with the default clipboard.
Result
This is my first line.
This is my second line.
[T]his is my second line.
This is my third line.
Appending to a register:
Use the capital letter to append to your existing register.
In the above example after pasting, press j to go down a line and then "Fyy. Then type p to paste. You've appended "This is my third line." to f's contents.
Result
This is my first line.
This is my second line.
This is my second line.
This is my third line.
This is my second line.
[T]his is my third line.
(Using a lower case f would have cleared out f's contents and ended up with it only holding "This is my third line.")
Why does p paste what's in register f immediately after you yanked into f? Because your default register holds a pointer to the last selection, and apparently doesn't simply hold what you added to f, but pulls everything that's in f when you append. It might be more expository to say, in the first case, "the result of typing "fyy"fp is exactly the same as having typed yyp with the default clipboard."
But if you were now to yy a new line into the default register, you can hit "f to select the f register and then p to paste that previous value.
I'm trying to get away from my arrow use but there is one thing I've yet to solve without using the arrow keys. Take this example:
var1 = "1"
var2 = "2"
var3 = "3"
var4 = "4"
Now I want this to be:
var_1 = "1"
var_2 = "2"
var_3 = "3"
var_4 = "4"
Using arrows I would just goto the var1, insert and add the underscore and then arrow down and do the same thing. The problem with using hjkl is I can't be in insert mode so I have to esc out, move down, insert...rinse repeat which required more work. Is there another way to accomplish this?
You can also use a visual block insert:
go to the "1" in "var1"
press CTRL+V
go down with j to select all the rows you wish to affect
I (that's capital i)
_
<ESC>
The underscore should now be inserted at the correct place in all the rows selected (for some reason it takes a second for it to happen on my machine)
There are many ways to do this. Using movement commands for example:
1G0 → Go to the start of the first line
f1 → go to the first occurence of "1"
i_<ESC> → insert "_" and go back to normal mode
j. → go down a line and repeat the insert command
j. → go down a line and repeat the insert command
...
Or, better yet, use an "ex" command:
:%s/var/var_/
Or even with the visual block command, as johusman notes.
Assuming you're at line 1, character 1...
Using a macro:
qqfra_<Esc>+q3#q
q Record macro
q Into register q
f find
r 'r'
a append
_ underscore
Esc Normal mode
+ Start of next line
3 Three times
# Play macro
q from register q
Par 11.
Or (better) using substitute:
:%s!r!&_<CR>
Par 9!
[Sorry... too much VimGolf!]
I tend to prefer :substitute over the visual block mode.
%s/var\zs\ze\d/_/
I always have line numbers turned on, so I'd do e.g.
1,4 s/var/var_/
This is similar to the
% s/var/var_/
answer, but it only functions on the named lines. You can use visual mode to mark the lines, if you don't like typing the range (the 1,4 prefix) in your command.
In Vim,
How do i add a word at the beginning of all lines?
Also how do i add it at end?
Eg..
If i have
A
B
C
D
I want to make it to
int A =
int B =
etc..
use visual block mode (Ctrl-v) to select the column you want, and then hit I, type the characters you want, and then hit Esc
So in this case, you'd put your cursor on A, hit Ctrl-v, go down to D, hit I and type int (it'll only appear on the first line while you type it), and then hit Esc at which point it'll apply that insert to all visually selected portions.
This works for anywhere in the document, beginning of line or end of line.
:he v_b_I for more info on Visual Block Insert
You can do this:
:%s/^/at the beginning/
:%s/$/at the end/
:%s/.\+/int & =
+ won't match on empty lines
If you need to copy just the first word, then do:
:%s/^\w\+/int & =/g
If you want to preserve indentation, then do:
:%s/^\(\s*\)\(\w\+\)/\1int \2 =/g
A global substitute should do i:
:%s/.\+/int & =/
This is how it works: in the second part of the substitution (ie in the int & =) the ampersand is replaced with what machted in the first part (the .*). Since .* matches the entire line, each line is subsituted as wanted.
If you have empty lines (in which you don't want to have any replacements), you could go with a
:%s/^\S\+$/int & =/