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MacGowans Teeth: Aug 13, 2003

Subjunctive posted:

Could you unpack that? Is q the macro name?

q is the register where the macro is stored. The normal command treats whatever comes after as if it had been typed on the current line in normal mode, so when you do that across a range, it applies the normal mode commands to each line in the range. I use :'<,'>norm (or numbered ranges) for . and & a lot, and it's great for macros, too. It's a pretty awesome command.

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MacGowans Teeth: Aug 13, 2003

Destroyenator posted:

Combining with visual mode can be pretty powerful too:
code:
:g/{/norm f{v%J
All lines matching open brace ( :g/{/ ) normal mode ( norm ) jump forward to brace ( f{ ) enter visual [highlighting] mode ( v ) jump to matching brach ( % ) join all highlighted lines ( J )

You can chain multiple calls if you have an enter key press in a register. I can't work out how to paste one into the command line without having pre-recorded it though.
code:
:g/something/norm V/searchtarget^Md
All lines matching something ( :g/something/ ) normal mode ( norm ) line highlighting ( V ) search forward for searchtarget ( /searchtarget^M ) delete all highlighted lines ( d )
Where ^M is a pasted enter, to record one to register q ( qq<Enter>q ) and paste with control-r q.

Whoa, using visual mode hadn't occurred to me, that's awesome.

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