Re: Reformatting each line independently (how to apply an operation to each line)

On 2020-03-07 15:36, 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies. It seems that:
>
> 1) There's no really clean way to do it. It seems to me that there
> should be something like "linedo" - analogous to "windo" and
> "buffdo". Of the workarounds, the %g/./normal method seems the
> best. Thanks for that.

The typical way to write a "linedo" command is

:g/^/command

which is subtly different from

:g/./command

in the event that a line is empty. For your use-case, it doesn't
change anything, but if your change should also happen on empty line,
you'd want to use the "^" pattern because every line has one of those.

> 2) It just occurred to me that, for this specific case
> (reformatting each line), you could use "fmt -s" (at least on
> Unix/GNU version of "fmt").

which, if it would work, you could pipe the range through fmt:

:%!fmt -s

Always nice to have options :-)

-tim


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