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Consider a file with an AsciiDoc ordered list like this:

. one + ---- echo hello # arbitrary lines... echo world ---- . two . three

How do you move the code block to some arbitrary place in the list (like two)? In words, I want to "reach from + to the next quad dash".

I played with the problem for a bit and can solve in two steps:

  1. Get to the start of the code block of the one item: /one/;/----/.
  2. Attach the code block to another list item—that is, in ed, move the range from previous line (the +) to the next ---- to the target (two list item in this case): -,/----/m/two/.

Which yields:

. one . two + ---- echo hello # arbitrary lines... echo world ---- . three

But I wonder if there's a nicer way!

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As long as we know we're moving the contents of a specific "source" list item down to an existing "target" list item, we can use /one/; to locate the source line, then move the next few lines, until the line above the next list item to the target with +,/^\./- m /two/.

,n 1 . one 2 + 3 ---- 4 echo hello 5 # arbitrary lines... 6 echo world 7 ---- 8 . two 9 . three 
/one/; +,/^\./- m/two/ 
,n 1 . one 2 . two 3 + 4 ---- 5 echo hello 6 # arbitrary lines... 7 echo world 8 ---- 9 . three

If you want to move contents down one list item from one to the next, use

/one/; +,/^\./- m //

Unless I was trying to create an automatic editing script, I would have figured out the line numbers (with the n command), then moved them with 2,7 m 8.

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