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Vim macro for erb gettext strings
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I’m currently adding translation markup to a load of files. Here’s a before/after:

- <h3>Need to protect your scoop?</h3>
+ <h3><%= _('Need to protect your scoop?') %></h3>

Using vim-surround, this takes a few steps:

  1. ysit' (surround in tag with single quote)
  2. ysa') (surround the single quotes with parenthesis
  3. ysa(= (surround the parenthesis with erb tags)
  4. Manually insert _ before the first paren

You can then run the macro on lines matching a pattern with something like

:g/pattern/norm! @a
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