Why not use
:%s/\n3 CONC //
to concatenate all the continuations and then use
:%s/\(2 NOTE \)\(.*\)/\1<div> class="xxx">\2<\/div>/
to turn all the NOTE lines into <div> blocks? Or am I misunderstanding
something about the transformation you need?
- George
On 12/23/20 6:08 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2020-12-23 17:48, John Cordes wrote:
I'm seeking help with editing a GEDCOM (genealogy) file. For
this I'm using Vim 8.2 in Windows. Here is a segment of text from
the file (the language doesn't make sense since I've deleted
some internal lines in the NOTEs which aren't relevant to the
question):
=======================
1 EVEN
2 TYPE tngnote
2 NOTE I have included the children William, Charles, Alice, and
with his parents in 1881, and with his widowed mother in 1
3 CONC 891 (e.g. see my online transcription of the 1891 Smiths
with James Moser, son of Henry Moser and Mary Henneberry, and his
wife Margaret Woodin; however
3 CONC , I have not yet taken this step.
1 BIRT
=======================
The 2 lines beginning with ^3 CONC are Continuation
(CONC=Concatenation) lines.
I want to surround the text of the NOTE with a 'div' tag, so that
the final result should look like this:
=======================
1 EVEN
2 TYPE tngnote
2 NOTE <div class="xxx">I have included the children William,
Charles, Alice, and with his parents in 1881, and with his widowed
mother in 1891 (e.g. see my online transcription of the 1891
Smiths with James Moser, son of Henry Moser and Mary Henneberry,
and his wife Margaret Woodin; however, I have not yet taken this
step.</div>
1 BIRT
=======================
I'd start with this ugly monstrosity:
:%s/^2 \u\{3,} \zs\(.*\n\(\%(\D\|3 CONC \).*\n\)\+\)/\='<div
class="xxx">'.substitute(substitute(submatch(1), '\n3 CONC ', '',
'g'), '\n', '', 'g')."<\/div>\n"
(all one line in case it breaks in the mail)
If you only want it to do "2 NOTE" lines, you can change that initial
2 \u\{3,} \zs
(which does any item that has continuations) to
2 NOTE \zs
This does join *all* the lines and doesn't re-wrap them, so you'd
then want a second pass to do the wrapping
:set tw=70
:g/<div [^>]*>.*<\/div>$/norm gqq
Hope this gives you some ideas to work with.
-tim
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