Vi/Vim (Why it’s worth the effort)

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Bill Odom – Vim Fandango : http://stlouispm.blip.tv/file/4021138/

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Here is an absolutely incredible article on Vim: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Read the section below the question (the reply to the question).

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[David Barr]

I might as well put in a plug for Emacs. 🙂

If you’re already an intermediate to advanced VI user, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend switching, but if you’re a beginning VI user, you should take a look at Emacs as well.

Here’s a summary of some of the powerful features of Emacs:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

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Do you ever receive a file of HL7 with messages split into segments (one segment per line)?

Here’s a quick way to convert that to HL7 one message per line using Vim.

Place this line in your ~/.vimrc file.

Code:

” Convert HL7 files from one segment per line to one message per line
nnoremap :%s/n//g%s/rMSH/rMSH/g
” Split HL7 into one segment per line
nnoremap :%s//r/g

Then, open your HL7 file in Vim, and hit F3.

Example

Code:

MSH|^~&|INTELLIDOT||||20101011172748||RAS|1285683329013|P|2.3|
EVN|RAS|201010111726|
PID|||0070020689||TEST-PROD-INTELLIDOT^FIVE^|||||||||||||50280266|
PV1|||3 West^0350^01|
ORC|CM|242241837|61||||^BID|||admin^User^Admin|^^^^^^^N||||201010111726|
RXA|||201010112100||80100222^TACROLIMUS 0.5 MG CAP|1^250^MG|||Note|||||||||||CP|
RXR|PO|||MED|

MSH|^~&|INTELLIDOT||||20101011172748||RAS|1285683329013|P|2.3|
EVN|RAS|201010111726|
PID|||0070020689||TEST-PROD-INTELLIDOT^FIVE^|||||||||||||50280266|
PV1|||3 West^0350^01|
ORC|CM|242241837|61||||^BID|||admin^User^Admin|^^^^^^^N||||201010111726|
RXA|||201010112100||80100222^TACROLIMUS 0.5 MG CAP|1^250^MG|||Note|||||||||||CP|
RXR|PO|||MED|

MSH|^~&|INTELLIDOT||||20101011172748||RAS|1285683329013|P|2.3|
EVN|RAS|201010111726|
PID|||0070020689||TEST-PROD-INTELLIDOT^FIVE^|||||||||||||50280266|
PV1|||3 West^0350^01|
ORC|CM|242241837|61||||^BID|||admin^User^Admin|^^^^^^^N||||201010111726|
RXA|||201010112100||80100222^TACROLIMUS 0.5 MG CAP|1^250^MG|||Note|||||||||||CP|
RXR|PO|||MED|

See attached image for result.

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