> On 01/16/12 12:04, Eric Weir wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Tim--and to everyone else who responded. My guess is
>> it was hitting u while in visual mode. I have not advanced to
>> the stage of using commands beginning with a g or a v. I'll
>> check out the ones you suggest.
>
> well, the "v" ones are ones done in visual mode, which it sounds like you're already using. Pressing u/U/~/? in visual mode transform the selection accordingly (lowercasing, uppercasing, swap-casing, and ROT13ing). The other "g" variants perform the same transformations over the text covered by <motion>
I misspoke. Yes, I do use v and V--frequently! What puzzles me in this case is that the changes took place over an extended block of text. As I write I can see how that would have happened. Most of what was changed was in folds. If I selected the folds I would've selected everything in the fold.
>> "diff" is one of those things I hear about here that I haven't
>> gotten around to checking out, yet. Likewise with "grep". I've
>> assumed they're more relevant to programmers, which I
>> definitely am not. But as you suggest with "diff," I'm pretty
>> certain that even programmers' tools can be put to good use in
>> plain old writing--if you've gone to the trouble of finding
>> out about them.
>
> "diff"ing just means comparing two files. For code, the standard diff occurs line-wise, and Vim has great support for this. To try it out, take a file, edit it and save it to a different name. Then start vim with
>
> vimdiff orig_file.txt modified_file.txt
>
> (or "vim -d orig_file.txt modified_file.txt", or issue ":diffthis" in each of two existing windows/buffers you want to compare). You might want to walk through
>
> :help diff.txt
I took a look at that after reading the responses to my post. I'll be checking it out further, i.e., experimenting with actually using it. I can imagine it coming in useful sometime.
> and try out what you see in there with two mostly-the-same junk files you have floating around. The most helpful things to know are the dp/dg (or ":diffput" and ":diffget" commands) for moving changes between the two files.
>
> As discussed recently in a parallel thread, if you have flowing text where paragraphs are reflowed inserting linebreaks (rather than your paragraphs being all on one line), it's not quite as useful. For that, you might investigate "wdiff" to compare the files.
Hmm. Haven't encountered the concept of "flowing" text previously. I believe my paragraphs have two linebreaks between them.
Thanks,
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