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		TorKlingberg on July 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim Creep For that I would probably have used a regex search and replace in any decent editor, or perhaps a Perl one-liner. cat file \| perl -p -e 's-\s(.)\.rb-// Run the $1 command\ndef $1()\nend\n-'

sophacles on July 12, 2012 [–]

As a heavy user of regex one liners, I agree in this case, but as a heavy user of vim, there are lots of times when a macro can be recorded and run over a file long before a proper regex can be constructed, particularly in multi line settings, or those things that would require heavily nested backrefs.

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