I often edit essays in Vim, and I would like to write a macro to insert <p> tags at the beginning and ends of paragraphs (defined as any chunk of text separated from other chunks of text by two or more line breaks). How can I do this?
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I often edit essays in Vim, and I would like to write a macro to insert <p> tags at the beginning and ends of paragraphs (defined as any chunk of text separated from other chunks of text by two or more line breaks). How can I do this?
Here’s one option:
I would recommend looking into markdown and pandoc if you do a lot of plain text essay writing. Also, the surround.vim plugin by Tim Pope allows for this kind of tag surrounding. For instance, I can do
ysiptp<CR>with the surround.vim plugin to surround a paragraph with<p>tags.