I want to format a block of text and I am using a range to select the leading comment of a function. It's all lines starting with // ....I'm using the range:?^[^\/][^\/]?+1,/^[^\/][^\/]/-1to select backwards up to the first line not starting with //, then plus one to get the the start of the comment, and similar thing for the forward search.If I prefix this with a sed command like s,^,#, this works. But if I use gq or gw as command it fails telling me Not an editor command: ...How can I apply the text format command to a range?
How to search and format a text range?
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