Edit file in filtered view
Pär Adeen
This is something that partly is provided by vim by folding. But I don't want the folding texts...
What I want is to watch a file in two views where the second one is a filtered view of the first one.
Can anyone please help me. I'm not a very advanced user
Q. I would like to have a dual view of my file with many thousand lines.
A. I could do this with a vertical split.
Q. Then I would like to two windows to be synchronized.
A. I could do this with the :scrollbind command
So far everything is good... But then:
Q. I want to filter the view to only show text matching my regex
A. There's a VIM-tip's for that:
:set fold
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~@/
:nnoremap <F8> :set foldmethod=expr<CR><Bar>zM
The problem is that I cant get rid of the text: "+--27 lines: xxx-----------------"
I would like a list of all lines containing my regex and nothing else. The output I would like is similar to the output generated by this command:
:g!/MyRegEx/d
but I don't want to delete the text since I want to edit the complete file (but in a filtered view)
The second problem I get is that I want to :scrollbind to completely sync the lines between the current cursor line in my filtered window with the line i my unfiltered windows so that I could see the surrounding text
Example:
Windows 1 (original)
========
1 Line 1
2 Line 2
3 Line 3 foo
4 Line 4
5 Line 5
6 Line 6 foo
7 Line 7
Windows 2 (filtered on /foo/)
========
3 Line 3 foo
6 Line 6 foo
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pade
there could be many lines between the hits.
I don't think this use-case is unique. To filter out irrelevant data
and only work with the relevant data. That's what many script-
languages like perl etc. was developed for...
If vim can't do this, we will probably build a special editor for
this. But hey... I'm the only vim-user at the company and this is a
chance to get other to use/like vim as well.
>
> - Visa citerad text -
pade
Windows 1 (original)========
2 Line 2
3 Line 3 foo
4 Line 4
5 Line 5
6 Line 6 foo
7 Line 7
Windows 2 (filtered on /foo/)========
3 Line 3 foo
6 Line 6 foo
pade
active search expression:
:vsplit
:set foldmethod=expr
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~@/
Then with the following command I could get rid of the annoying text
at each folding. Not as good as removing the line, but good enough :-
(
:set foldtext=v:folddashes.substitute(getline(v:foldstart),'.*','','')
Then I must make sure that every tiny thing is folded
:set foldminlines=0
I then use the following command to bind the two windows:
:set scrollbind
Whats left (besides removing the folding line) is to bind the not
filtered window to my cursors current line in my filtered window. The
scrollbind is not good enough here since it syncs on the whole window
rather than on my cursor.
On 1 Dec, 21:48, Pär Adeen <par_ad...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is something that partly is provided by vim by folding. But I don't want the folding texts...
> What I want is to watch a file in two views where the second one is a filtered view of the first one.
> Can anyone please help me. I'm not a very advanced user
>
> Q. I would like to have a dual view of my file with many thousand lines.
> A. I could do this with a vertical split.
>
> Q. Then I would like to two windows to be synchronized.
> A. I could do this with the :scrollbind command
>
> So far everything is good... But then:
>
> Q. I want to filter the view to only show text matching my regex
> A. There's a VIM-tip's for that:
> :set fold
> :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~@/:nnoremap <F8> :set foldmethod=expr<CR><Bar>zM
>
> The problem is that I cant get rid of the text: "+--27 lines: xxx-----------------"
> I would like a list of all lines containing my regex and nothing else. The output I would like is similar to the output generated by this command:
> :g!/MyRegEx/d
> but I don't want to delete the text since I want to edit the complete file (but in a filtered view)
>
> The second problem I get is that I want to :scrollbind to completely sync the lines between the current cursor line in my filtered window with the line i my unfiltered windows so that I could see the surrounding text
>
> Example:
>
> Windows 2 (filtered on /foo/)========3 Line 3 foo6 Line 6 foo
>
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> Whats left (besides removing the folding line) is to bind the
> not filtered window to my cursors current line in my filtered
> window. The scrollbind is not good enough here since it syncs
> on the whole window rather than on my cursor.
I'm not recommending this, but as a matter of interest the "Conceal" patch includes
the 'cursorbind' option.
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches
John
Marc Weber
> This is something that partly is provided by vim by folding. But I don't
> want the folding texts...
>
> What I want is to watch a file in two views where the second one is a
> filtered view of the first one.
>
> Can anyone please help me. I'm not a very advanced user
Maybe http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2014
could be tweaked to match your use case (however I doubt it works well
with that big files)
Another solution is using egrep and the quickfix buffer or the like.
But windows will not be synchronized.
Marc
Tony Mechelynck
> Thanks, But this will not help since the file could be almost 1MB and
> there could be many lines between the hits.
> I don't think this use-case is unique. To filter out irrelevant data
> and only work with the relevant data. That's what many script-
> languages like perl etc. was developed for...
>
> If vim can't do this, we will probably build a special editor for
> this. But hey... I'm the only vim-user at the company and this is a
> chance to get other to use/like vim as well.
You may want Vim to display the relevant lines as a message rather than
as an edit buffer: see ":help :g"
For instance, to display only the lines contining the words "foo" and
"bar" in that order (each as a word, without quotes, and with anything
between them), you might use
:g/\<foo\>.*\<bar\>/p
(From quickfix.txt lines 614-615:
[Unix trivia: The name for the Unix "grep" command comes from ":g/re/p",
where
"re" stands for Regular Expression.]
)
Best regards,
Tony.
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I'm leaving."
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Tony Mechelynck
> On 02/12/08 07:50, pade wrote:
>> Thanks, But this will not help since the file could be almost 1MB and
>> there could be many lines between the hits.
>> I don't think this use-case is unique. To filter out irrelevant data
>> and only work with the relevant data. That's what many script-
>> languages like perl etc. was developed for...
>>
>> If vim can't do this, we will probably build a special editor for
>> this. But hey... I'm the only vim-user at the company and this is a
>> chance to get other to use/like vim as well.
> [...]
>
> You may want Vim to display the relevant lines as a message rather than
> as an edit buffer: see ":help :g"
>
> For instance, to display only the lines contining the words "foo" and
> "bar" in that order (each as a word, without quotes, and with anything
> between them), you might use
>
> :g/\<foo\>.*\<bar\>/p
>
> (From quickfix.txt lines 614-615:
> [Unix trivia: The name for the Unix "grep" command comes from ":g/re/p",
> where
> "re" stands for Regular Expression.]
> )
>
P.S. See also ":help :redir" about capturing, for instance, the output
of ":g/something/p".
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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