Questions tagged [find]
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Open the file from :find in a :tabnew
I have my fuzzy file finder in Vim and it does a pretty good job. But it always opens the file in the current tab. I want my :find to open the resulting file in a new tab.
I know I can :tabnew <...
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:find cannot find file in 'path' which command-line can see
Suppose the directory tree looks like this:
rootdir
├── data
│ └── file.txt
└── data2
└── file2.txt
When Vim is launched at rootdir and configured with :set path=data*, it is unable to :find ...
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Simultaneous find and replace
Is there a way to perform a simultaneous find and replace?
e.g.: I want to replace all 1 for 0 and simultaneously all 0 to 1
[
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1],
...
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:find multiple file names
I apologise if this was asked before, but I couldn't find anything similar.
I am trying to write a simple command to jump to a test file, using the current file name. I have managed to achieve this ...
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I would like to find and count number of entries bigger than a certain number in front of a certain string
I would like to use vim to do the following operation in vim:
I would like to determine the number of entries with avg_deg greater then "'avg_deg': 5.50" from a simple .log file as well as the average ...
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Advance to next (multi)characters on a line
To advance to the next/previous character match on a line I can do:
f <char>
However, I find myself wanting to match against two characters on that line, for example, something like:
f ='
Is ...
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What is the difference between :find and :edit
:find and :edit both edit files and appear to need the relative or absolute path provided if the file isn't in the current directory. What is the extra part that :find brings? What is 'path'?
Help ...
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gf with search pattern instead of line number
vim file +80
will open file in vim, with cursor at line 80
vim file +/if/
will open file in vim, with cursor at first line containing if.
For vim file +80, inside vim, there is gF.
The question:
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Replace Only First Occurence after Pattern
Suppose I have a file which contains:
TEMP=100
TEMP=100
and I want to change all of the string beyond 'TEMP=' to 200, so it would read:
TEMP=200
TEMP=200
I could use the command :%s/TEMP=\zs.*/200/...
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Replace after a specific pattern
Suppose I have a string as follows:
RESULT=100
How would I replace everything following 'RESULT=' so that the string reads:
RESULT=200
The closest I've gotten so far is to use:
:%s/\(RESULT=.*\)\@...
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Named capture groups in vim regex?
Does vim allow us to assign names to capture groups for search/replace that can be used in place of \1, \2 etc... for back-references and substitution?
Like in in Python:
>>> import re
>...
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Find and replace only between searched patterns
Editing large HTML file. Would like to do something like:
:/<blockquote>/,/<\/blockquote>/s/^\(\s\s\+\)\(<[^>].\{-}>\)/\1 \2/g
So basically just trying to indent all between ...
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Pipe native command to vsplit
I have opened vim in a directory of code which contains long_name_module.py. My path variable is path+=** so the python file is visible to find.
I type
:find lo<tab>
and the filename is ...
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How to find a executable file inside a folder?
I have the path of a folder in a variable, and for a custom debugging script I am making, i need to find an executable file inside that folder (the executable find is guaranteed to exist, but not to ...
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How to search for any repeating character, X number of times
Let's say a buffer has a certain characters I know will be repeated seven (7) times. How can I search for any character repeated seven times?
I know I can search for .., but those to characters won'...
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Find and replace in XML file in vi
I have an .xml file which contains many times the following web beacon
<span lang="EN" class="multilang">ANY TEXT TOTO</span>
I would like to make a "Find&Replace": each web beacon ...
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regex find and replace all with capture groups throws E488: Trailing characters
My text file looks like this
Lastname, Firstname
Doe, John
I'm trying to get it to end like this using find replace regex
Firstname Lastname
John Doe
This regex throws the error, although using ...
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How can I pass extra flags to FZF/ripgrep commands with the leader key?
Current functionality
When I use <C-P> and <C-Å> I can respectively search file names and contents. Everything works great.
Target functionality
When prepending either with <leader>, ...
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How to do a find with a regex and jump to a specific position within the match
For example:
I have several lines starting with :q:, which I want to jump to:
:q: regex syntax
(...)
:q: regex examples
(...)
Now I want to jump to the start of regex syntax or regex example with a ...
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How to make f{char} case insensitive?
Regarding this command:
f{char} To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right. The
cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
{char} ...
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How to change f{char} to search left if no char was found searching right?
Regarding this command:
f{char} To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right. The
cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
{char} ...
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E488: Trailing characters error in VI with find and replace command
I am trying a simple find and replace function in VI Editor to change a profile path but the / is getting in my way and I need a simple and clever solution.
I tried using:
%s/profile: "/fldr0/local/...
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Fuzzy find within buffer
Can I change / command to execute a fuzzy search instead of a regex based one?
It would be useful to still be able to access the classic / functionality at certain times.
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Find and replace string with slash in it and retain the slash in the new string
I am having a tough time finding and replacing a string using vi.
Source String:
&DB2_PORT;/&DB2_DATA;
New String after replace:
&DB2_PORT;/&DB2_DATA;:tcp=true
I can find &...
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How to check if a pattern is contained in a register's content?
I'm writing a new plugin and as part of a function, I need to check that a register contains a particular pattern.
I checked the official documentation but couldn't manage to use any of the search() ...
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User command with modified 'path' completion?
I'm trying to write a wrapper command around :edit or :find specifically to open either my vimrc or a subpath of ~/.vim/ (e.g. ~.vim/autoloads/foo.vim).
If I run the command with no arguments, it ...
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Exclude some paths from :find path
I'm working on a large scale project with a lot of files, and :find is extremely (several seconds) slow, much slower than :lgrep backed by ag, which skips directories mentioned in .gitignore, e.g. tmp,...
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Why is filetype not set after :find from autocmd?
Objective
I want vi file to act like :find file if file doesn't exist.
That is, I want to be able to edit a file by name, without giving a path to the file, from the command line:
mkdir -p a/b/c
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How to jump to a next or previous specific character ignoring linebreaks and not destroying highlight or overwriting my registry?
I have not found much use for ()[]{}, and so I want to map them so it does a find command, jumping to the previous instance of that particular character.
Thus, ) will jump forward to the next ), ...
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How to “find” or “till” a bigram?
I have to do a lot of hopping in lines.
Often times I want to hop to a t in a line, and promptly press ft, only to discover that I have to do it 7 times before I can actually make it to my ...
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Keystroke to move cursor to the last character of a highlight?
In Visual Mode, you can do this using the o keystroke.
However with search highlighting, ie ? or / -- I have a whole selection, but I want to move specifically to the last character of the highlight....
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Ignore folders when performing :find command
I'm using the :find command as my "fuzzy file searcher" in Vim. My setup:
set path=,,**
nnoremap <leader>f :find *
However, I'm having trouble ignoring folders. Huge folders that contain ...
