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Tip #227 - Power of :g : for more context - 0 views

  • Display context (5 lines) for all occurences of a pattern     :g/<pattern>/z#.5     :g/<pattern>/z#.5|echo "=========="     << same as first, but with some beautification >> Delete all lines matching a pattern     :g/<pattern>/d Delete all blank lines (just an example for above)     :g/^\s*$/d Double space the file     :g/^/pu =\"\n\"     :g/^/pu _     << the above one also works >> Copy all lines matching a pattern to end of file     :g/<pattern>/t$ Yank all lines matching a pattern to register 'a'     0"ay0:g/<pattern>/y A Increment the number items from current line to end-of-document by one     :.,$g/^\d/exe "normal! \<c-a>" Comment (C) lines containing "DEBUG" statements     g/^\s*DEBUG/exe "norm! I/* \<Esc>A */\<Esc>" A Reverse lookup for records (eg: An address book, with Name on start-of-line and fields after a space)     :g/<patern>?^\w?p               "if only name is interested     :g/<patern>/ka|?^\w?p|'ap       "if name and the lookup-line is interested     :g/<patern>/?^\w?|+,/^[^ ]/-1p  "if entire record is interested Reverse a file (just to show the power of 'g')     :g/^/m0
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