Re: repeat insert characters until end of line or getting the last col in a buffer?

On 2018-12-28 12:14, tony wrote:
> Is there a way to insert a repeat of characters to the width of a
> buffer?

It may depend on how you determine the width of the buffer.

You might mean your 'textwidth' setting, or you might mean your
terminal's (or gvim-window's) $COLUMNS setting.

> But if the repeat count is the terminal buffer width, is there a
> quick way to determine that or a variable of the last column?

There's not a quick-to-easily-type way, but you can do the math once
and then create a mapping to do the rest for you, or do them all in
one go:

:%s/$/\=repeat('X', &tw?&tw-strlen(getline('.')):&columns-strlen(getline('.')))

(this appends the character "X"). It assumes that if you have a
'textwidth' set, you want to use that; if you have it unset, it uses
your terminal-width as stored in 'columns'

-tim



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