playback recording by range?
Bee
I can playback the register
I can playback the register count times
Is there a way to playback the register by range?
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Bill
Santa Cruz, California
Tim Chase
> I can playback the register
> I can playback the register count times
> Is there a way to playback the register by range?
Though untested, my first thought would be something like
:'<,'>g/^/norm @z
(assuming your macro was in register "z")
Which in theory could be extended to execute a macro on lines
matching a regexp:
:g/regexp/norm @z
If it doesn't work, I'm sure others out there have good
suggestions (that they've tested ;-) too.
-tim
Jürgen Krämer
Hi,
Tim Chase wrote:
>
>> I can record keystrokes to a register
>> I can playback the register
>> I can playback the register count times
>> Is there a way to playback the register by range?
>
> Though untested, my first thought would be something like
>
> :'<,'>g/^/norm @z
>
> (assuming your macro was in register "z")
no need to use :global,
:'<,'>normal @z
works, too.
> Which in theory could be extended to execute a macro on lines
> matching a regexp:
>
> :g/regexp/norm @z
>
>
> If it doesn't work, I'm sure others out there have good
> suggestions (that they've tested ;-) too.
Just tested. ;.)
Regards,
Jürgen
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Tim Chase
>> :'<,'>g/^/norm @z
>>
>> (assuming your macro was in register "z")
>
> no need to use :global,
>
> :'<,'>normal @z
>
> works, too.
I've had just enough trouble forgetting which Ex commands (mostly
the ones I don't use regularly) accept a range and which default
to the first or last line of that range. So I tend to toss in
the extra "g/^/" guard to make sure the operation is happening on
each line rather than guess wrong and have to undo+rerun the
command. ":exec" and ":put" are the big ones I guess that
regularly get me (or rather "got" me...before I started using the
:g form). ":norm" lumps in my head with ":exec", but on reading
the docs (and Jurgen's evidence) ":norm" takes a range, and
":exec" balks at it.
-tim