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John
John

Reputation: 85

Append to visual block only on specific lines

Lets say i have the following text.

this.is.some.text
this.is.emos.text
this.is.some.text
this.is.emos.text

I want to edit this text in 'Visual Block' mode so that the text looks as follows.

this.is.some.text
this.is.emos_suffix.text
this.is.some.text
this.is.emos_suffix.text

It should work like this:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196556

The only native way to accomplish that from visual-block mode or any other visual mode is to use a substitution:

:'<,'>s/emos/&_suffix<CR>

where…

  • you press :,
  • Vim inserts the range '<,'> for you, meaning "from the fist selected line, :help '<, through the last selected line, :help '>`,
  • s/emos/&_suffix substitutes every first occurrence of emos on each line of the given range with itself, :help s/\&, followed by _suffix.

Visual selection is often an unnecessary step and, in this case, visual-block mode is totally useless because A or I is going to operate on every line of the selection anyway.

Another method:

/emos/e<CR>
a_suffix<Esc>
n
.

Another one:

/emos<CR>
cgn<C-r>"
_suffix<Esc>
.

Another one, assuming the cursor is on the first line of your sample:

:,'}s/emos/&_suffix<CR>

Etc.

Upvotes: 5

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