We Heart Code » vim http://www.weheartcode.com A discourse on programming Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 One Time Case Insensitive Vim Search http://www.weheartcode.com/2007/06/29/one-time-case-insensitive-vim-search/ http://www.weheartcode.com/2007/06/29/one-time-case-insensitive-vim-search/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:04:59 +0000 Tim http://www.weheartcode.com/2007/06/29/one-time-case-insensitive-vim-search/ Everyone knows you can type

:set ic to ignore case in vim, however sometimes you want to do a case insensitive search on a ‘case by case’ basis, no pun intended.

to do that you’d type

/\csearchstring

That way you don’t have to go insenstive for your whole session.

]]> http://www.weheartcode.com/2007/06/29/one-time-case-insensitive-vim-search/feed/ 1 Creating comma delimited lists with vim http://www.weheartcode.com/2006/10/06/creating-comma-delimited-lists-with-vim/ http://www.weheartcode.com/2006/10/06/creating-comma-delimited-lists-with-vim/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:29:38 +0000 Tim http://www.weheartcode.com/?p=4 Sometimes you just want a comma delimited list. But all life has handed you is a newline delimited list. Lucky for us, God made vim.

Paste/Open your file in vim.

Enter command mode (press escape) and enter this command:

:1,$s/\n/,/

That tells vim starting from line 1 to the end of the file replace newlines with commas.

Now we’re golden, you can paste it into an IN clause in your query, or change the replacement to “,” if you want to make a string array for some quick test data without typing like a sucker. And yes vim is available for windows.

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