/prog/ - How to "paste-over" a line with Vi(m)?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 15:40

I want to change the copyright line of the source files of a project to have a copyright of "2007-2008" instead of just "2007". I know that I can yank one changed line ("yy") and paste it ("p"), but I'm wondering if there's a way to delete a line without yanking it (which is what "dd" does automatically) so I can quickly replace the old lines with the new one.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:04

In EMACS, we have kill rings.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:06

>>2
That doesn't exactly help. Please don't turn this into an editor war.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:08

"-dd

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:09

>>3
You must be new here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:11

>>4
Disregard that.

"_dd

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:20

>>6
Thanks! I'll have to use registers more often.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:21

>>4,6
DON'T HELP HIM!!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:23

You're editing wrong. Try sed -i s/2007/2007-2008/ *.code on for size.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:24

>>8
Why not?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:30

>>10
You must be new here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 16:31

use perl

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 18:44

>>9
:%s/2007/&-2008

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 21:09

>>13
Yes. I wasn't about to look up Vim's syntax for it though.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 22:32

>>14
You must be new here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 1:08

>>15
You must be gnew here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 1:09

>>16
You must be GNU here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 1:12

>>17
What does the ``G'' in ``GNU'' stand for?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 1:21

>>18
You must be GNU's Not Unix here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 9:05

wuts vi??

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 9:09

>>20
I must be old here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 9:43

>>20
wuts 6??

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 11:17

how do i exited vi???

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 11:24

killall -9 vi

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 11:56

I laughed when I pressed C-x C-c in vi.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 12:10

>>25
Heathen! <Escape>:q<Enter> FTW!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 12:11

>>26
Heathen! ZZ is superior.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 14:48

:qa!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 15:07

:x

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 18:55

>>25
I LAUGHED TOO but then i found out it does that even if you only hit C-c :sniff:

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 6:05

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Name: Anonymous 2009-07-12 3:16

Lisp CLOS Python Ruby But if you want to mention shorter to do the bare minimum to become a programmer I said in OP as a long time ago before java before C before fortran before computers before people before and know just how rage inducing they are Anyways.

Name: Anonymous 2010-12-10 11:21

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-04 16:37

Don't change these.

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