Execute Multiple Commands in Vim
Today I needed to perform multiple transforms on a chunk of text in a file and found a nice solution in Vim! Initially I was thinking about VISUAL mode in Vim and chaining transforms the way I would do with sed (i.e. s/one/two/g;s/^/ /;s/$/,/). It turns out this doesn’t exactly work in Vim, but it’s not too far off the mark. The following syntax works in Vim NORMAL mode: :%s/^/ / | %s/string/replace/g | %s/$/,/ And in VISUAL mode, the sytax is slightly different....