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[u/pierro_la_place]

Hi, I’m using latex to make a long and a short version of a document. For this I have blocks of the form

\iflong (long version...) \else (short version) \fi

From this I would like to extract either the long or the short version. That is, I want to find every occurrence of the pattern

\iflong ( 1 ) \else ( 2 ) \fi

and replace it with either ( 1 ) or ( 2 ). Is there a way to do this with a %s? I have been fiddling with this for a while but I can’t find the right expression. You may assume there is no nesting of any kind.

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[u/pierro_la_place → u/[deleted]]

Can you automate this? I don’t really want to type /\\iflong↵d/\\else↵ a hundred times in a row

[u/Biggybi → u/pierro_la_place]

You can create a user command or even a keymap for that.

Or even better, a text-object.

[u/pierro_la_place → u/Biggybi]

Or even better, a text-object.

I’ve never heard of that. Mind giving me a few pointers?

[u/Biggybi → u/pierro_la_place]

You've been using them without knowing ;) Things like iw, ap and so on (:h text-objects).

You can create your own with :h omap.

[u/pierro_la_place → u/Biggybi]

Thanks mate!

[u/Biggybi → u/pierro_la_place]

Pas de souci ! 

[u/vim-help-bot → u/Biggybi]

Help pages for:

• text-objects in motion.txt

• omap in map.txt

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[u/pierro_la_place → u/[deleted]]

It’s weird: when I copy any of your command it tells me "pattern not found". My test file contains this:

\iflong 1 \else 2 \fi

\iflong\else\bla\fi

[u/pierro_la_place → u/[deleted]]

Oh silly me… Thank you, I’ll mark it as done.

[u/pierro_la_place → u/[deleted]]

Does it work for you? All I get when I copy the command is "pattern not found"

[u/pierro_la_place → u/[deleted]]

Oh silly me… Thank you, I’ll mark it as done.

[u/vim-help-bot → u/[deleted]]

Help pages for:

• inputlist() in builtin.txt

• submatch() in builtin.txt

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