ex is a line editor which serves as the foundation of vi. ex commands work on the current line or on a range of lines in a file. ex is invoked using the colon syntax within vi, and can be invoked on its own from the shell.
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ex command line for delete frome specific line to specific line in list.txt bash script
I have a list.txt file with a couple of lines like:
this line 1
this line 2
this line 3
this line 4
this line 5
this line 6
I want to delete from line 1 to line 2 with the ex command without using vim editor, I want use the ex command if that is…
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Boost::ex.DI - Inject parametrized object
In our c++ application, we create many objects, like this:
class Interface {
public:
static InterfaceImplementation Create(string s) {
return InterfaceImplementation(s);
}
};
class User {
public:
User() {
i =…
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How to automate an EX command in vim?
I have an EX command that I use pretty regularly to remove multi-line comments.
:%s,/\*\_.\{-}\*/\n,,g
Is there any way I can make it an EX alias (if such a thing exists?) in vimrc file?
The goal would be something like:
:nocomments
Then it would…
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ex (vim) adds an extra space character to empty lines
I would like to do some processing with ex (vim in ex/silent mode). There is however a strange behaviour if a line is empty. An extra space character is added to that line - even in binary mode. Is it possible to eliminate that?
Check out:
$ printf…
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Disable normal mode in ex (vim -e)
I have to use ex (or "vim -e"), because normal mode does not work in one of my environments.
If I start ex, the following message appear "Entering Ex mode. Type "visual" to go to Normal mode.". Is it possible, to
remove this unnecessary text (if I…
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Autodesk Forge: Cluster extension
I would like to add the cluster extension onto my forge application.
I am able to add it in the forge VSCode extension when I am viewing the model through vscode, but I would like to add it to my main…
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How to get the method name and line number in Exception in ASP Core 5
I want to get the method name and line number when an error occur, I am using Core 5.
try
{
//My code
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_logger.LogError(ex, "Method Name / Line Number");
…
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Using a shell script, How insert a line in a file which starts with a hash?
I'm trying to insert a line of text beginning with a hash in a text file using a shell script, using something like this:
ex run <
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Elixir piping output to an anonymous function
I'm currently learning elixir and i'm trying to print functions and their arity
print = fn ({function , arity}) ->
IO.puts "#{function}/#{arity}"
end
Enum.__info__(:functions) |> Enum.each(print.())
this returns
**…
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Why is `vim -E` always exiting with non-zero exit code when using here-doc?
see the following session in dash:
$ printf "foo\nbar\n" > testfile
$ cat testfile
foo
bar
$ vim -E testfile <<-EOS
> 1
> s/foo/baz/
> x
> EOS
$ echo $?
1
$ cat testfile
baz
bar
$ vim -E testfile +'1' +'s/baz/foo/' +'x'
$ echo $?
0
$
I use ex-mode…
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Unable to set excel VBA worksheet variable
I am trying to set a source worksheet variable to a target worksheet variable in another workbook(DataSource1.xlsx) with the purpose of eventually using it to read the target worksheet and perform some calculation but it gives me the subscript out…
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Regular expression works in vim but fails in vim's ex mode
I am using the ex mode of vim in a script to perform vim regular expression and substitution on text files.
ex $NAME <//g
:%s/\[.\{-}\]//g
:%s/ / /g
:%s/^Contents$
:%s/^\d.*$
:%s/ (.\{1,4\})//g
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Multiline paste (ctrl-r) into ex or search|replace ^M with \r
When I'm yanking few lines and pasting it to command-line every new line is ^M instead \r. For example if I copy next two lines in visual mode (with command Vjy):
line1
line2
and paste it in command-line (search) mode with command /" I…
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Add Object to beginning of collection VBA
This may have been asked before but I can't seem to find it...
I have a class I created and a collection for each object of that class, when I added these objects to my collection I did not give each item a key and rather let VBA do that…
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I am looking for a way to shorten this code by consolidating each "Case is" instant into one getting the case name from a variable
The purpose of the macro is to choose the correct data depending on the selected case in a dropdown menue on my "Recommendation" sheet.
This is my code:
Private Sub cmbNatCoList_Change()
'Define selected NatCo and variables for loop
Dim NatCoList…
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