move a range of text to address?

[BartlebyScrivener]

I see this command when I do :h :move

:[range]m[ove] {address} *:m* *:mo* *:move* *E134*

Move the lines given by [range] to below the line given by {address}.

But when I try it by setting mark a and b and then try moving the text to the end of the file:

:a,bm $

I get a trailing characters error.

rick

[Tim Chase]

On 11/13/12 11:01, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> But when I try it by setting mark a and b and then try moving the text to the end of the file:
>
> :a,bm $
>
> I get a trailing characters error.

You want to reference the marks as marks:

:'a,'bm$

as show in

:help :'

(part of ":help :range") Otherwise, it thinks you're trying to do
an :append command, which is the origin or the peculiar error.

-tim

[BartlebyScrivener]

Thank you, Tim.

I've been yanking and putting my whole life and stumbled on "move" this morning by accident.

Could be quite useful.

Thanks again.

rick

[Tim Chase]

On 11/13/12 11:16, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Thank you, Tim.

Glad to help

> I've been yanking and putting my whole life and stumbled on "move" this morning by accident.
>
> Could be quite useful.

If you've been *yanking*, you'll want the :copy (also known as :t)
command, too. :-) Behaves pretty much identically, except it copies
rather than moves the line (which you'd get by *deleting*-then-putting).

I've got my fingers hard-wired with

:m+

to move the current line down one, which I use because
yanking/deleting tromps my scratch register when it's often useful
to preserve it when your intent is just "move this line down one".

The :t and :m commands are also helpful for gathering lines in a :g
command such as

:g/pattern/t$
:g/pattern/m$

which will either copy the lines to the bottom of the file for
review, or move the lines to the bottom of the file for
reviewing/ignoring purposes. I use both regularly, especially when
dealing with CSV files.

-tim

[sc]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:25:38AM -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 11/13/12 11:16, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > Thank you, Tim.

> Glad to help

> > I've been yanking and putting my whole life and stumbled on "move" this morning by accident.
> >
> > Could be quite useful.

> If you've been *yanking*, you'll want the :copy (also known as :t)
> command, too. :-) Behaves pretty much identically, except it copies
> rather than moves the line (which you'd get by *deleting*-then-putting).

> I've got my fingers hard-wired with

> :m+

> to move the current line down one, which I use because
> yanking/deleting tromps my scratch register when it's often useful
> to preserve it when your intent is just "move this line down one".

I use that so much I've devoted F8 and S-F8 to that very function with

nnoremap <silent> <F8> :m+<CR>
inoremap <silent> <F8> <ESC>:m+<CR>gi
vnoremap <silent> <F8> :m'>+<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <S-F8> :m-2<CR>
inoremap <silent> <S-F8> <ESC>:m-2<CR>gi
vnoremap <silent> <S-F8> :m-2<CR>

sc

[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Tim!

On Di, 13 Nov 2012, Tim Chase wrote:

> The :t and :m commands are also helpful for gathering lines in a :g
> command such as
>
> :g/pattern/t$
> :g/pattern/m$
>
> which will either copy the lines to the bottom of the file for
> review, or move the lines to the bottom of the file for
> reviewing/ignoring purposes. I use both regularly, especially when
> dealing with CSV files.

Since you mentioning CSV files, I thought I'll add the CSV plugin. It
let's you dynamically filter lines for certain patterns and folds away
all non-matching lines. I especially use this technique to review
records (while e.g. keeping a header line). Plus it adds some nice
syntax highlighting and can arrange your data into a spreadsheet look.

regards,
Christian
--
Komik entsteht, wenn man Trag�dien anschaut und dabei ein Auge
zukneift.
-- Eug�ne Ionesco

[BartlebyScrivener]

As long as there are so many :m wizards around.

The instructions for the address suggest that you could move the text to 'T but it doesn't seem to work if 'T is in another buffer.

For example

:'a,'bm 'T

Is there a way to do this using :m ?

rick

[Tim Chase]

I don't think there's a way to move a line to another buffer/file.
I believe the destination has to be within the same file. So you can do

:10ka
:20kb
:30kc
:'a,'b m 'c

to move lines 10-20 to after line 30 all within the same buffer.

Looking at

:help :m

it gives the syntax as ":[range]m[ove] {address}", so looking at the
help for

:help {address}

which states "when the mark is in another file it cannot be used in
a range". It might be better clarified to include "or as a
destination for a :move or :copy".

-tim