Re: Shift column right by spaces?

On 01/21/12 11:01, sc wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 07:54:12AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> I'm using MacVim 7.3 on OSX 10.7 (Lion)
>> As well as (g)vim 7.~ on ubuntu.
>
>> I would like to be able to move a column right by an arbitrary
>> numbers of spaces, regardless of the value of `shiftwidth'.
>
>> Is that possible?
>
> many ways -- probably the simplest:
>
> - position the cursor at the left/top of the column you want
> to move
> - press ctrl-v to enter visual mode
> - cursor down with the relevant motion command however long
> your column is

> - press I
> - enter as many spaces as you want

Or, enter a count for the number of spaces, press "I", insert one
space and hit <ESC>.

> - press ESC and the rest of the lines will get their spaces

If the column is delimited rather than at a particular character
offset, you can use (assuming a "," as the delimiter here)

:%s/^\%([^,]*,\)\{5}\zs/\=repeat(' ', 10)

where "5" is the number of columns to precede the insertion, and
"10" is the number of spaces to insert. Similarly, one could use
\%20c or \%20v as the search target for inserting N spaces.

As SC said, lots of options :)

-tim

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