Quick way to truncate column content?

[halloleo]

I found a way to truncate column content: Say, you want to truncate the current column to 10 chars. For this, do:

gs, g* and type:^(.{10}).*/\1

It works, but is there a more direct method to do so?

[anjakefala]

gs g= and then type ColumnName[:10] seems to also do the trick!

[halloleo]

That's a good one too.

It is important to know though, that this method is a "copy": You need to be in the correct column (as with the regex method) and you also need to type that column name in the select expression.

So, if you want to truncate the column WaterConsumption, your cursor needs to be in the WaterConsumption column and as select expression you type WaterConsumption[:10].

[saulpw]

You can also use curcol for the current column, instead of typing the actual column name.

[halloleo]

So curcol[:10] would work as the select expression, right? That's cool!