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Asked: 2026-06-10T04:04:55+00:00

Here I got simple task for skilled vimmers. I need to reformat my css

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Here I got simple task for skilled vimmers. I need to reformat my css file. There are commands to do this:

%s/}/&\r/g
%s/  /   /g
retab!
echo "You done did it!"

But I don’t want to type these commands every time I need to format my css file (I get it after convert less file by WinLess program). Now I put these commands into cssformat.vim file, and put this file into vim runtime folder. In my vimrc I set:

autocmd Filetype css nmap :so $VIM/vim73/cssformat.vim

It’s works, of course. But I wonder how can I do this task better? In the begginig I want to put these commands in my vimrc (to create a simple function), but I don’t know how to do this correctly.

p.s. Sorry for my bad English.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just put the commands from your script into a function:

    function! ReformatCss()
    " Place your commands here.
endfunction

    And move the stuff into your .vimrc. Now you can invoke this via :call ReformatCss().

    To top it off and make it even simpler, define your own command:

    command! ReformatCss call ReformatCss()

    Now you can invoke via :ReformatCss. Voila!

    You can learn more at :help usr_40.txt and :help :command. For example, if you only need this for CSS files, you can turn this into a buffer-local command through command -buffer and moving the function and command definition to ~/.vim/ftplugin/css_reformat.vim

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