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How does one keep the cursor in its place after a file-replace using :%s/find/replace/g ? I looked at restoring cursor position, but not quite what I was looking for, and I could jump back to previous position using ''.

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  • So what are you looking for? Using '' or <C-o> is sort of the answer :-) Do you want it to happen automatically?
    – Martin Tournoij
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 14:53
  • Automatically would be great; I'm hoping to eliminate an extra couple of keys, since I find myself going find-replace a lot, oh and learn something new (_:
    – KM.
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 15:06
  • @Carpetsmoker as well as `` ) Actually it looks like this particular question boils down to the issue whether it is possible to find some autocmd event we can listen to and trigger this automatically.
    – shabunc
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 18:53

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The anwolib plugin has a :KeepView command:

:KeepView %s/find/replace/g
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  • Is there a way to "enable" KeepView for all find-replace operations? I'm trying to minimize typing (_:
    – KM.
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 17:57
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    You can create a shorter :KV alias command, or even :kv using cmdalias.vim. To be even more extreme: :nnoremap : :KeepView<Space>
    – Ingo Karkat
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 19:59
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    Aaaand it's still the same two keys as with ''.
    – user1685095
    Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 12:17
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I would suggest something like:

fun! SubstiTute()
    let l = 1
    let limit = line('$')
    while l < limit
        call setline(l, substitute(getline(l), 'this', 'that' , 'gc'))
        let l = l + 1
    endwhile
endfun

Using setline() in conjunction with substitute() your jumplist and changelist will not be messed up.

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