Delete and redirect lines in Vim to another file
I want to delete say last 10 lines and move it to another file.
What I currently do is:
- select last 10 lines in visual mode,
- write these lines by
:'<,'>w
to other file, - and then delete selected lines.
Is 开发者_开发技巧there any more efficient way I can do this?
You can remove one step by doing this:
- visually select the lines
:!> newfile.txt
This will use an external command to write the lines to the given filename, and simultaneously delete them because nothing was output from the command.
If you want to append to a file instead of overwriting it, then use >>
instead of >
.
You can use ex
commands instead. e.g.
:1,10w file.name
Write the first ten lines
:$-9,$w file.name
Write the last ten lines (the dollar sign denotes last line)
With the code below in your
.vimrc
you can use the command :MoveTo file.name
function! MoveLastLines(f)
exe '$-9,$w ' . a:f "write last ten lines to the passed filename
$-9,$d "delete last ten lines
endfunction
command! -nargs=1 -range MoveTo :call MoveLastLines(<f-args>)
In normal mode the steps you mentioned (
GV9k:w file.name gvd
) are the most efficient in my opinion.A straightforward way of writing a range of lines to file and deleting them afterwards is to run the command
:$-9,$w path | '[,']d
However, it is inconvenient for frequent use if the file name is not constant.
Below is the function MoveToFile()
implementing the command with the same
name. The whole thing wraps the following two steps: write a range of lines
using :write
command (see :help :w_f
, :help :w!
, :help :w_a
), then
delete that range.1
command! -nargs=* -complete=file -range=% -bang -bar MoveToFile
\ :<line1>,<line2>call MoveToFile(<q-args>, <bang>0)
function! MoveToFile(fname, overwrite) range
let r = a:firstline . ',' . a:lastline
exe r 'w' . ' !'[a:overwrite] . fnameescape(a:fname)
exe r 'd'
endfunction
Now you can use the above command to cover all frequent use cases. For example, to move visually selected range of lines to file use the mapping
:vnoremap <leader>m :MoveToFile
This mapping triggers semi-complete command calling :MoveToFile
for the
range of lines selected in Visual mode ('<,'>
). You need only to type
a file name and hit Enter.
If you frequently do this for the last ten lines of a buffer, create a similar mapping just for this case:
:nnoremap <leader>m :$-9,$MoveToFile
1 Specified lines are deleted into the default register
overwriting its previous contents. To delete lines without affecting
registers change the last command in MoveToFile()
to
exe r 'd_'
In this case :delete
uses the black hole register (see :help :d
and :help
"_
) instead of the default one.
While you use visual mode for selecting lines, you can delete just written down lines pressing only three keys: d'>
(see :help '>
).
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