Vim query

ColInvictus · 09-23-2009, 07:29 PM

Message originally posted in wrong forum... oops

Anyhoo, I'm using snipMate for vim, I'd like to edit each of the ~/.vim/snippets/*.snippets files so that the tabs are replaced with 4 spaces (without changing the universal tabstops value), but I need to leave unchanged the first hard tab on any line which follows a line starting with 'snippet', as the snipMate.vim script uses it to recognise where to start.

For example:

Code:

# main()
snippet main
<--\t-->int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
<--\t-->{
<--\t--><--\t-->${1}
<--\t--><--\t-->return 0;
<--\t-->}

should be changed to

Code:

# main()
snippet main
<--\t-->int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
    {
        ${1}
        return 0;
    }

(where <--\t--> is currently a tab, naturally).

Do you know how I can do this in vim with a replace command - or better yet, using sed so I can apply it to the whole directory full of .snippet files at once?

Thanks
Col

ColInvictus · 09-23-2009, 08:47 PM

Never mind, I figured it out: in snipMate.vim, after line 150 ('if snippet != '') i inserted:

let snippet = substitute(snippet, '\t', repeat(' ', &sts), 'g')

which seems to have done the trick. Easier than I thought it would be, too

slakmagik · 09-23-2009, 10:30 PM

Glad you got it solved - vim rocks.

BTW, you can mark this thread 'solved' then. And if you accidentally post a thread in the wrong forum, you can ask a mod to move it vs. posting another. If you do post dupes, you can hit the 'report' button to inform a mod to close it. If you already did that, then never mind, but I did on the other thread in case you didn't.