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

On 2018-12-28, Tim Chase wrote:
> 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'

If you replace "&columns" by "winwidth(0)", this solution will work
for vertically-split windows as well.

Regards,
Gary

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