On 6/10/2011 1:03 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 10.6.2011 18.39, flapeccino at gmail.com wrote: >> There is a good article on vimscript here: >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vimscript-1/index.html) > > Sorry there was a typo, the correct URL is: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html > > Thanks, I found that already, and it is a good one. But it didn't help > me solve my problem about cursor motions. > > Maybe my question is wrong - maybe I should just use line ranges in > commands, for example for the first line: > :1,1s/foo/bar/g > and for the last line: > :$,$s/foo/bar/g I thought the point of using vim instead of something more appropriate for scripting was that you already knew how to use it. Why not do: vim -W script testfile and go through the motions you know (which can include 1G to go to the 1st line and G to go to the last). Then run vim -s script realfile to do the same actions again. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com