Re: Vim for Oracle

look at that...I learn something new today....

:s/\t/,\r/g

I didn't know that one...thanks

On 09/24/2012 10:36 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 09/24/12 12:19, vicky b wrote:
>> Thanks for the replies guys but in the present world where we
>> leave with so much of ide and code completion and so many
>> features what is that makes you guys stick to vim .. does it make
>> your job simpler or features are great or your use to it.
> First, I've used Vim for so long that I now find things like ":w"
> appearing in my other editing tools (Query Analyzer, Word, etc), so
> using Vim is habit.
>
> Also, the power of Vim makes it very easy to perform quick
> transformations on text/queries which I regularly do. For DB work,
> one I frequently do is a
>
> SELECT TOP 1 * FROM SomeTable
>
> and run it in text-mode (rather than grid-mode). I then copy out
> the headers in the results, paste them into Vim and issue a
>
> :s/\t/,\r/g
>
> to turn them into named columns that I can order as I see fit,
> without hand-entering them all. That often makes the foundation of
> a SELECT clause for me.
>
> Matching parens/braces, syntax highlighting, batch transforms,
> macros, etc. are all reasons I have trouble stepping away from Vim.
>
> -tim
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