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Tanktalus
Tanktalus

Reputation: 22254

vim: copy via regex and paste

I'm looking to write a vim macro (not that I know how yet) eventually, as I'm sure I can do this in vim, but I don't know the basics yet.

I want to grab the branch name (or part of it anyway - that part of the regex should be straightforward) from a git commit message, and paste it, with a colon, to the top of the file, and hopefully leave the cursor at the end of that.

So the file looks a bit like this when I start:

$ <-- cursor here
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
#
# On branch JIRA-1234-some-description-here
# Your branch is up to date with ...

I want to capture the /On branch \([A-Z]*-[0-9]*\)/, move back up to the top, paste it, and a colon, leaving the cursor after the colon, e.g.:

JIRA-1234: $ <-- cursor here
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
#
# On branch JIRA-1234-some-description-here
# Your branch is up to date with ...

Ideally, also leave me in insert mode there.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 255

Answers (2)

builder-7000
builder-7000

Reputation: 7627

You could use this function:

function! MyFunction()                                                      
  g/On branch \([A-Z]*-[0-9]*\)/exe "co0 | 1s/.* \\(.*-\\d\\+\\).*/\\1:/g"
  normal $                                                                  
endfunction

and then map it:

nmap <leader>f :call MyFunction()<cr>

Explanation of function: the global command g/{pat}/[cmd] executes the command [cmd] on lines where pattern {pat} matches. You've already provided {pat} in your question. Then, to execute more than one command I recommend to use exe. Here exe copies the matched line to the first line (co0) and performs the replacement (1s/.../\\1:/g).

Upvotes: 1

Peter Rincker
Peter Rincker

Reputation: 45087

Assuming you are using fugitive.vim you can use fugitive#head() to get the current branch name. You can probably do something like this (put in vimrc file):

augroup MyCommit
    autocmd!
    autocmd FileType gitcommit call setline(1, substitute(fugitive#head(), '^\([A-Z]\+-[0-9]\+\).*', '\1: ', ''))
augroup END

Note: I have not tested this in anyway.

Upvotes: 1

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