quick vim question: how to duplicate column and paste next to it?

[endervalentine]

Sorry, my google skills are failing me this monday ...

I have this column
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee


I want this:
aaa aaa
bbb bbb
ccc ccc
ddd ddd
eee eee

Any suggestions?

 

[endervalentine]

nvm, got it ... ctrl-v works+ yank and paste works, just need to get add spaces to my selection to capture everythign since the elements were different widths.

 

[AtlantaBob]

nvm, got it ... ctrl-v works+ yank and paste works, just need to get add spaces to my selection to capture everythign since the elements were different widths.

For what it's worth, seems like it might be easiest to do this (at least with large amount of data) with awk.

 

[degibson]

:%s/.*/& &/

 

[endervalentine]

:%s/.*/& &/

thanks degibson!

can you explain how the syntax works out?

 

[Ken g6]

.* means everything, starting from the first match, which is any character; so that gets the whole line.
& copies everything that was matched, so here that's the whole line. Twice.

If you don't know what :%s does, look it up!