[CLUE-Tech] vim question: doing a large document using join

[Todd A. Gibson]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:47:36PM -0600, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> Todd,
> 
> Yes, it works, but I was wondering if there are other ways or scripts
> that would do a whole file at once.  Does it sound like I'll have to use
> sed to do the whole file?
> 

Well, working from your regular expression I can get it to two commands
(or two command-ish thingys anyway):

:% s/^ \+/
1GVGgq

To map the whole thing to function key #1 

:map #1 :% s/^ \+/<ctrl-v><ret>1GVGgq

<ctrl-v> is control-v
<ret> is the return/enter key:

-TAG