Re: enclosing a word with a tag with dynamic parameters.

On 07/05/10 20:43, surge wrote:
> Gotcha. What I did was I avoided column numbers and switched to marks.
> So, I mark the beginning of the "span" with a "a" mark and then do:
>
> exe ":'<,'>s/\\%'a" . '<span class="\(.\{-}\)"' . '/<span class="\1
> ' . a:class_marker.l:diff . '"/'
>
> Still don't know what /\%{column_number}v does. Anybody can point me
> to the right place in the docs? I think it's search starting at
> column {column_number} and "v" has something to do with visual, but I
> don't know what.
>
> Thanks
>

:help /\%v

It's "virtual", not "visual", meaning a column measured in screen cells.
Just above it you see /\%c explaining that in a pattern, \%nnc (where nn
is a number) means the column measured in bytes (from start-of-line,
plus one since the begin of the line is column one not zero).

Best regards,
Tony.
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