Re: How to make vim not break strings when autoformating?

Thanks Tim

I really did not expect this to be such a hard problem. Might be the
cases that it is easiest to just write a vimscript for this.

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> I hadn't seen a reply to this, so I thought I'd take a crack at it
>
> On 05/16/12 06:31, Fredrik Andersson wrote:
>> I have a list of string values that I would like to autoformat but vim
>> breaks the strings if there is a space inside of it.
>>
>> Can this be fixed somehow?
>>
>> example
>>
>>     "sdasda", "asdasdasd", "afasfasf", "asdasda asdasd", "asdasd"
>>
>> becomes
>>
>>     "sdasda", "asdasdasd", "afasfasf", "asdasda
>>     asdasd", "asdasd"
>>
>> but I want
>>
>>     "sdasda", "asdasdasd", "afasfasf",
>>     "asdasda asdasd", "asdasd"
>
> While not automatic, you can use the following:
>
> %s/\%(^\%("[^"]*"\|[^"]\)*\)\@<=\%("[^"]*\|[^"]\+\)\%>50c/\r&
>
> (where "50" is where you want things to wrap; this could be
> generated dynamically with an :exec and &tw to pull in the current
> value of text-width)
>
> which should come fairly close.  Unfortunately, you have to just
> repeat its execution until it fails (rather than use the "/g" flag).
>
>> Extra bonus: It would be nice for it to support different string
>> formatings (Python, ". ' and """)
>
> For single-vs-double quotes, I'd just hack together an alternate
> version that swaps the desired character in.  For the triple-quote
> strings that Python allows, it becomes a whole other ball of wax.
>
> -tim
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