vimgolf E20

[Neil Earnshaw]

This command works fine in vim on my chromebook:

:*s/)/);/

It appends a ';' to each line that ends with a ')'.

But when I try it in vimgolf I get E20 Mark not set.

Can anyone clue me in to what's going on, please?

-Neil (noob)

[Niels Kobschätzki]

On 6. May 2020, at 20:13, Neil Earnshaw <neil.e...@gmail.com> wrote:



This command works fine in vim on my chromebook:

:*s/)/);/

What is *s?

Cheers,

Niels

[Neil Earnshaw]

's' is substitute and the '*' applies it to all matching lines in the file

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[Chris Willis]

 

 

From: Neil Earnshaw

Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2020 7:44 PM

To: vim...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: vimgolf E20

 

's' is substitute and the '*' applies it to all matching lines in the file

 

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:38 PM Niels Kobschätzki <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> wrote:

 

On 6. May 2020, at 20:13, Neil Earnshaw <neil.e...@gmail.com> wrote:



This command works fine in vim on my chromebook:

 

:*s/)/);/

 

 

What is *s?

 

Cheers,

 

Niels

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really? I’ve always used :%s

 

Chris

[Niels Kobschätzki]

On 6. May 2020, at 21:05, 'Chris Willis' via vim_use <vim...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



 

 

From: Neil Earnshaw

Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2020 7:44 PM

To: vim...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: vimgolf E20

 

's' is substitute and the '*' applies it to all matching lines in the file

So the same as :%s/foo/bar/g but saving one char?

 

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:38 PM Niels Kobschätzki <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> wrote:

 

On 6. May 2020, at 20:13, Neil Earnshaw <neil.e...@gmail.com> wrote:



This command works fine in vim on my chromebook:

 

:*s/)/);/

 

 

What is *s?

 

Cheers,

 

Niels

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really? I’ve always used :%s

Niels

[Tim Chase]

On 2020-05-06 11:12, Neil Earnshaw wrote:
> :*s/)/);/
>
> It appends a ';' to each line that ends with a ')'.
>
> But when I try it in vimgolf I get E20 Mark not set.

Assuming you haven't changed your 'cpo' to include "*"

:help cpo-star

the "*" is the same as the range

'<,'>

so

:*s/)/);

appends a semicolon after parens in the previously selected range.

The error suggests that you haven't yet visually-selected anything to
set those marks.

Hope this helps,

-tim

[Neil Earnshaw]

Ah ha,

So * on my machine is doing the same % in the standard install.  I got my config from somewhere in internet space, hence the difference.

:%s/)/);

...does the job and doesn't complain about marks.

The idea with vimgolf is to achieve the required edit in a few keystrokes as possible. I've got this down to 11 (including ESC, CR and ZZ to save), but the best in the rankings is 10 keystrokes, and I just can't figure out how to get rid of that last keypress.  : P

Thanks for the help with '%',

-N

[Christian Brabandt]

Check your compatibility options, :h cpo-*


Best,
Christian
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[Neil Earnshaw]

My basic.vim config file has the following:

    "Make search act like search in modern browsers

    set incsearch

Might this be why '*' is applying the s// expression to all lines?

Or is it this:

    "For regular expressions turn magic on

    set magic

???

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[Christian Brabandt]

On Do, 07 Mai 2020, Neil Earnshaw wrote:

> My basic.vim config file has the following:
>
>     "Make search act like search in modern browsers
>     set incsearch

See the help what this does: :h 'incsearch'

> Might this be why '*' is applying the s// expression to all lines?

Are you sure, that your :*s is the same as :%s?

>     "For regular expressions turn magic on
>     set magic

That is the default and should not be set to a different value. See
:h 'magic'

Best,
Christian
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