[21:22:18] <RichiH> then open in vim, go to the first line you need, press ctrl-v, go down to where you want to stop, press I, then \item{ and escape
[21:22:46] <RichiH> to remove numbers, press ctrl-v, move right by a few and down. when you have all you want gone, press d
[21:23:34] <RichiH> to finish the itemizing, go to first line, press _shift_ v, go down to the line you want and :s/$/}/
[21:23:49] <RichiH> all those assume there is one line per item, btw
[21:24:00] <RichiH> and one item per line
[21:26:56] <RichiH> gah, i was outbid on ebay