[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Topher wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:58:45PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> >>>>What other things do people find handy?
> >[snip]
> >>>
> >>>                          I also like `ce'.
> >>>                         Guess what it does?
> >>>                          (This is a hint.)
> >>>
> >>Re "ce", check for closing parenthesis?
> >
> >No; it centers text.
> >
> >                    A circus performer named Brian
> >                  Once smiled as he rode on a lion.
> >                    They came back from the ride,
> >                        But with Brian inside,
> >                And the smile on the face of the lion.
> >
> >I highlighted those lines with V and then entered the command `ce'.  It
> >centers based on the textwidth parameter (in this case, tw=72).
> 
> And on mine it deletes the text and puts me into insert mode.

Bummer.  Well, `u' is `undo'.  :-)  Actually, I should have indicated
that `:ce' will center the current line (or whatever is selected).  Just
typing `ce' will, in fact, delete some text.
-- 
john-thomas
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