From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T12:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 1:26:18 PM, Hal wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> _MY_ favourite is this:
>> 
>>   :g/abc/normal 3WdWA def
>> 
>> (For exvery line that contains 'abc', delete the fourth word and
>> append ' def' to the line.)
>> 
>> Another cool one is ^A/^X (increment/decrement the next number on the
>> line -- great in macros!)

> I have *never* heard of ^A and ^X, that is fascinating.

I once had to turn 1Kb of test data into 10Mb of test data.  It was
copy/paste, except a unique ID was required.  Enter a vim macro with
^A in it, tell it to run the macro 10000 times, make a cup of tea, and
voila - 10Mb of test data.  ::licks lips::

Gavin