D-Man uttered: > > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and > | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start > > 2 hours!? Wow. Learn vi(m) or some other advanced editor. If you > have that foo.txt with each filename on its own line the following > will take very little time to create a web page of links out of it. > Vim is indeed my editor of choice. The 2 hours was mostly because I got distracted reading & checking out the stuff I found. But my edits weren't nearly as slick as what you suggest.
Thanks to a conversation at a BAD (Bay Area Debian) meeting last week, I was clued in to visual mode. Here's what I did: 1. At the first line, type 'v' to enter visual mode. 2. Scroll to the last line, type ':' 3. Vim starts the command text for you. Append s/^/<a href="file:\/\//g <enter> 4. Repeat the command, this time appending s/$/\"> DESCR <\/a>/g This turned a line like /usr/share/doc/apache/manual/mod/index.html into <a href="file:///usr/share/doc/apache/manual/mod/index.html"> DESCR </a> But your technique for capturing the original line & using it for the link description is very cool & will save me much effort for my updates. Thanks! Paul
