From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:09:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0903030809x7c3bc390n43577e4808e980c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00903030407h4119527dj479d890123491103@mail.gmail.com>
> I just had to edit a file which has very long lines having >1000
> 'words' seperated e.g. with a TAB character. I had to find say 1000th
> word on such a line.
>
> In vim, it's easy. You use '1000W' command and there you are.
> Can the same be achieved in sam/acme? The main problem for me is the
> repetition --- i.e. how to do sth. known number of times...
You can double-click at the beginning of the line and then execute
s/<tab>/\n/g
.-0+1000
u
that will show you what the 1000th word is, and then you
can go back to it after the undo. It's not ideal, but you asked.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 12:07 Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 12:49 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-03 13:53 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 15:40 ` roger peppe
2009-03-03 15:58 ` yy
2009-03-03 16:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 15:58 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 15:59 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 14:15 ` John Stalker
2009-03-03 14:23 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 16:09 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-03-03 16:31 ` roger peppe
2009-03-03 17:16 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 18:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 16:39 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 20:30 ` Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani
2009-03-03 22:13 ` ron minnich
2009-03-03 23:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-03 23:37 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-04 0:31 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 0:44 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-04 0:56 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 1:51 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-04 2:15 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 4:59 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-04 9:41 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 9:52 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 11:32 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 13:31 ` Uriel
2009-03-04 13:41 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 16:35 ` John Stalker
2009-03-04 16:56 ` ron minnich
2009-03-04 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-04 14:14 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 14:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-04 14:59 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 16:34 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-04 17:03 ` Russ Cox
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