Re: wrapping a series of comma separated words

Am 11.08.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Ben Fritz:
>
> On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 10:57:27 AM UTC-5, Chris Lott wrote:
>> I'm constantly needing to wrap a series of comma separated titles
>> with html <i> tags, so this:
>>
>> John has published work in foo, fubar, boo review, and many more.
>>
>> Becomes this
>>
>> John has published work in <i>foo</i>, <i>fubar</i>, <i>boo review</i>, and many more.
>>
>> Right now I'm visually highlighting each title and using emmet to
>> wrap with the tags, but it seems like there must be a shorter way!
>
> In general I find working with such lists easier with this pull
> request compiled in:
>
> https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/958
>
> I think in this specific case it would possibly only help a small
> amount, as I'd still probably visually select and then use the
> surround plugin on the visual selection.

I've also added a script for this purpose:
https://github.com/Houl/charobj-vim

In the example, with surround.vim (and after setting up keys), you type once
ysim,<i>
to make the first replacement and then go the next location (eg with mouse click)
and hit the dot key to repeat.

charobj still needs fine-tuning (ie options), because with
foo, fubar, boo review
the result will be
<i> foo</i>,<i> fubar</i>,<i> boo review</i>
(would be more useful to skip surrounding whitespace -- but maybe not always).

And it still assumes selection=inclusive.

Otherwise a count works and dot-repetitions works.

And the region is always within a single line, to make extending the region
to begin/end-of-line work. Maybe this will change too (with option).

--
Andy

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