Vimdiff editing text

[K otgc]

I'm having trouble moving text from file2 line1 to file1 line8.

How do I do that please?

[c.willis111]

How about

vim file2

yy

:e file1

7G

p

ie open file 2, grab the first line, edit file1, move to line 7 and append what you yanked.

No doubt there are ways involving two windows.

regards - Chris

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[Tim Chase]

On 2023-02-24 22:50, K otgc wrote:
> I'm having trouble moving text from file2 line1 to file1 line8.

If it's just one line as part of a larger change, you can yank it
and either paste it normally or visually-highlight the line with
"V" and paste to replace it (or paste it and then delete then line).

If it's a whole block, you can use "dp" or "do"

:help do
:help dp
:help :diffput
:help :diffget

to obtain the diff from the other window, or put the current diff
in the other window.

This assumes that, in your example, that diff mode has aligned
line 1 of file1 with line 8 of file2. If not, diff-mode won't help
you much in this case, so you'd have to revert to the yank/paste
method.

If that's what you're doing and you're still having trouble, you'd
have to expand on what you mean by "having trouble moving text."

-tim

[K otgc]

Thanks, I actually posted this about a week ago.

I figured out I just have to manually delete, yank and put.

I was hoping vimdiff would do and dp.

The biggest headache was sorting the lines, as dates were majorly messed up due to a very old syncing error before the iPhone came out.

I have just watched some awesome vim tutorials and learned about the command 'sort'.  Hopefully this well save time for future edits coming up.

Perhaps once lines are sorted by date, the do and dp my work.