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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 9v0063d76854000000000249

Paste a column after a column

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Start file

Names
Donald Knuth
Sebastian Thrun
Peter Norvig
Satoshi Nakamoto
Age
100
50
60
45

End file

Names,Age
Donald Knuth,100
Sebastian Thrun,50
Peter Norvig,60
Satoshi Nakamoto,45

View Diff

1,10c1,5
< Names
< Donald Knuth
< Sebastian Thrun
< Peter Norvig
< Satoshi Nakamoto
< Age
< 100
< 50
< 60
< 45
---
> Names,Age
> Donald Knuth,100
> Sebastian Thrun,50
> Peter Norvig,60
> Satoshi Nakamoto,45

Solutions

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227 active golfers, 1074 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

65

#211 - ColeW - Warrior Jar / @quetzalColetl

03/06/2023 at 02:19AM

65

#212 - Joshua Stupplebeen / @joshstupplebeen

04/18/2023 at 08:31PM

67

#213 - Egor Voronov / @do_syscall_64

05/25/2023 at 04:36PM

68

#214 - Jin-hyeok Kim / @JinhyeokKim12

03/10/2023 at 06:33AM

72

#215 - David Young / @dhyoung01

02/15/2023 at 07:55PM

72

#216 - Albert Lunde / @AlbertLund9335

03/15/2023 at 10:56AM

78

#217 - Teiva Harsanyi / @teivah

04/23/2023 at 05:09PM

78

#218 - Golfer / @golfplayervim

04/26/2023 at 09:58AM

79

#219 - フキヤ@肩書きなし男 / @yabu_bioinfo

03/12/2023 at 02:53PM

91

#220 - Boyd Kane - loadshedding in your calendar / @beyarkay

04/03/2023 at 05:25PM

92

#221 - Jeff Martin / @amVmZm1hcnRpbg

04/09/2023 at 02:25AM

93

#222 - Andrea Wang / @xufanwang

02/27/2023 at 06:53AM

95

#223 - Brett Levenson / @brett_levenson

02/18/2023 at 06:10AM

96

#224 - furi0us / @_antivini_

03/27/2023 at 04:06PM

101

#225 - Martin Sarosi / @RoganJoshua

02/07/2023 at 01:04PM

108

#226 - congve1 / @congve1

02/01/2023 at 09:19AM

190

#227 - Thomas Hiron / @thomashiron

02/20/2023 at 10:07AM