Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "THE TRUE POWER OF VIM - Saving hours of time with some vim magic" video.

I call bullshit, until you show how it can be done in np++ (which I assume is Notepad++?)
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@latezksi Sorry if I appear very stupid... how do you do the part >Use multiple line select to efficiently copy and paste The best I can think of would be to have the resulting JSON to be split per line, as many lines as the source, instead of it being a single line. Then you can select the source and paste as a column in the output, three time. Then join the lines back. I guess that's pretty quick, just as fast as Mental Health's solution.
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And how do you do the macro part ?
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@masterg8235 Unless there's something I don't know of (which is why I'm asking), you cannot have a regex that get a source, replace it exactly 3 times, then jump to the next source and repeat. And without that it would be quite some manual work. Not hours, as Mental said, but still not likely to finish faster than he did.
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