Timeline for Select multiple words, one at a time, then replace them all
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
5 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2020 at 11:50 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij |
Writing commands is kind of how Vim works @Sam, which is probably different from VSCode. You can use nnoremap <C-s> :%s// to map it to control+s, for example. Basically mappings just send the keys you'd type (although you can do some more advanced things as well). To automatically add the /g flag and put the cursor in the correct position you can use :nnoremap <C-s> :%s//g<Left><Left>. You can also add the * beforehand, if you'd like.
|
|
| Oct 28, 2020 at 13:20 | comment | added | D. Ben Knoble♦ |
@Sam note that it is stored in the search register (:help quote/) which is accessible via @/--as are most registers. We already have a Q somewhere about mapping :%s//... if I can find it
|
|
| Oct 28, 2020 at 0:09 | comment | added | Sam |
Thanks for your answer Martin, I knew about the star * operator to match the next word, but I didn't know that it was saved in the @ variable, interesting. I also didn't know I could use this to ignore the first parameter in :%s//replace. It's pretty great. I guess I would ask you, could you show me how to make a nmap or inoremap so we don't have to write the instruction :%s//replace? I would really appreciate it. I'll edit my question to put more context.
|
|
| Oct 27, 2020 at 22:11 | comment | added | D. Ben Knoble♦ | Thinking alike :) | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 22:07 | history | answered | Martin Tournoij | CC BY-SA 4.0 |