 Tip #1501: substitute last search
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February 2, 2007 6:14 |
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When I want to do a complex substitution with regular expression, I usually do a previous search of what I want to replace. Doing so, make me sure that I haven’t made any mistake, but if the regular expression is a bit long, it is boring to type it a second time…
Here is a trick to bypass this problem:
/<regular expression which match what I’m going to replace>
:%s/<c-r>//<new string>/g
<c-r>/ will be replaced by my previous search regular expression.
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Anonymous,
February 5, 2007 8:02
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%s//.../
now this is a great tip! I had never seen it before, and it's immediately useful.
And also today, I learned of a Vi input manager for Cocoa applications on the Macintosh:
http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/
It isn't the everything in Vi, let alone Vim, but it's a fantastic start.
This has been a great Vim day.
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info at bertram dash scharpf dot de,
February 2, 2007 10:04
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Leaving the pattern empty has almost the same effect.
%s//.../
Maybe you like to have a look at "&", ":&", and "<c-r><c-w>".
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Anonymous,
February 5, 2007 3:47
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| Thanks, it is really interesting ...
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