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Brett
Brett

Reputation: 386

Vim running commands with execute and normal

I'm trying to search through a page for the word CREATE. I would then like to put DELIMITER $$ above that line.

Here is my attempt. Can someone point me in the right direction?

:execute "%normal! /CREATE\<cr>"."O DELIMITER $$"."<esc>"

Am I on the right track?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 111

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172530

Yes, you're close. To combine an action with a matching pattern, use the :global command. For prepending text in a new line, there are actually multiple approaches: The normal-mode O command can be used with :normal, or you can :put an expression = (instead of register contents) containing the text.

:g/CREATE/normal! O$$

or

:g/CREATE/put! ='$$'

Upvotes: 2

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