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Is there a way to set Negate in the substitution command? In other words how to substitute any character except | to - and all | to +. Example:
| some text | other text |
to
+-----------+------------+
Is there a shortest way than :s/[^|]/-/g | s/|/+/g ?
You can use the replace special substitution:
:s/./\= submatch(0) == '|' ? '+' : '-'/g
Here \= says to use the following expression to use as the result string.
And it's checking for submatch(0) (the char matched by the /./ pattern) and do a condition on that.
Have a look at:
:h sub-replace-special:h submatch()As an alternative you can use the system's tr program:
:.!tr '| -z' '+-'
