How to reformat "gq"ed text in one line per paragraph format in Vim
I have some text files previously formatted in vim using "gggqG". Now I need to convert them to one line per paragraph format. I saw a way(using :g command) to do that before, b开发者_开发问答ut I have forgot it. Anyone knows?
There are two approaches I know of:
Set textwidth to something big and reformat:
:set tw=1000000 gggqG
Use substitute (this is more appropriate if you want to do it in a mapping):
:%s/.\zs\n\ze./ /
Explanation of the latter:
:%s " Search and replace across the whole file
/ " Delimiter
.\zs\n\ze. " Look for a character either side of a new-line (so ignore blank lines).
" The \zs and \ze make the replacement only replace the new-line character.
/ / " Delimiters and replace the new-line with a space.
If your text paragraphs are separated by a blank line, this seems to work:
:g!/^\s*$/normal vipJ
:g
global (multi-repeat)
!/^\s*$/
match all lines except blank lines and those containing only whitespace.
normal
enters 'normal' mode
vip
visually select inner paragraph
J
join lines
Maybe you should set textwidth to very large value (like 99999999) (0 does not work for some reason) and use gggqG
?
// I cannot tell you a way to reformat your paragraph with :g
without knowing exactly what the paragraph is. Maybe somebody else can.
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