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I know it should be easy, but somehow I don’t get it right.

I've got a text with artist_id, album_id,... and want to replace them with just id.

How do I do that?

I tried :%s/[a-z]+_id/id/gc, but it did not work.

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If you read :help pattern, you’ll see you need \+. Vim’s patterns are not quite like PCRE or POSIX B/ERE

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    The escape is in the help tag, too :help /\+
    – Rich
    Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 10:13
  • I didn’t know about :help pattern. Thx
    – Oswaldo Nickel
    Commented Jan 14, 2020 at 2:40
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In addition to other answers, look in the docs for \v which, at the beginning of the search string, makes it behave as "very magic", which means that + will work the way you want, while \+ will refer to the literal plus sign.

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  • I was always wondering about that. Now i know. Thx
    – Oswaldo Nickel
    Commented Jan 14, 2020 at 2:43
  • @OswaldoNickel :help is your friend, always. You can accept this (or the other) answer, however, as a more effective "thank you" that encourages us to answer better and better everytime.
    – Enlico
    Commented Jan 14, 2020 at 7:03

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