Re: multiple substitutions of individual characters

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 at 9:40pm -0800, Chris Lott wrote:

> I have a mapping in my .vimrc to replace "smart" typographic
> characters with their plain text counterparts:
>
> map ,fq :%s/"/"/e<enter>:%s/"/"/e<enter>:%s/'/'/e<enter>:%s/'/'/e<enter>:%s/–/--/e<enter>:%s/—/---/e<enter>:%s/…/.../e<enter>
>
> It strikes me that this is probably not the best way to go about
> this...I was thinking it would be cleaner to somehow use an array of
> characters and replacements (or something similar)?

You could use Tim Pope's Abolish plugin:
<http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1545>:

:%Subvert/{",",',',–,—,…}/{\",\",',',--,---,...}/g

or short (with a capital "S", not "s"):

:%S/{",",',',–,—,…}/{\",\",',',--,---,...}/g

Hope this helps.

Best,
Claus

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