Questions tagged [search-replace]
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Keep specific parts of a :s command in nvim
What I'm trying to do is convert between Textile and Markdown links, so it should be able to do something like :s/".*"(.*)/[.*](.*)/, which is to say, keep the stuff that is matched by the .*...
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Search and replace with regex in the replacement [duplicate]
I would like to replace all instances of match("something") with match("something", source). However, using
:%s/match(.*)/match(.*,\ source)/g
replaces it by match(.*, source). ...
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Vim find and replace with filename as variable
Is it possible to use vim find and replace to replace a variable with the current filename? for example, fancyFileName.txt contains
this is the VARIABLE to replace in this fancyFileName.txt
and I am ...
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add quotes to each string and change the delimiter for a comma
I have this string:
private | public-read | public-read-write | authenticated-read | aws-exec-read | bucket-owner-read | bucket-owner-full-control
I would like to find a mnemonic or easy pattern that ...
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search-replace see number of changes [duplicate]
Is there an easy way to configure search-replace to show the number of changes that a search and replace made? My current way of doing it is to do the search and replace, and then undo and redo the ...
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VIM search and replace regex - how to keep the search string intact and adding to it?
I'd like to learn how to search and replace in VIM - keeping the search string intact and adding to it.
Take this as a simple example. See image below. I copied a simple python script written for ...
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Match one regex pattern if not preceded by another one
I'm trying to match
\item \macro{this\var}.% YYYY-MM-01
where 01 can be 1 and replace with
\item The Month is MM
\item \macro{this\var}.% YYYY-MM-01
when NOT this case:
\item MonthYY
\item \macro{...
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Transform text that matches a pattern to uppercase
Searching /<pattern> in a document highlights text in some places like this:
some text ...
match1 some text ...
some text match2
...
match3 text match4
...
Is there a way to make all the ...
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How do I replace single whitespaces without affecting multi-whitespace such as indentation in Vim?
I have textfiles with paths that have lost underscores between words inline in an OCR process. I want to keep the indentation and put back the underscores in the paths.
I have a path like this:
/...
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Search and Replace on odd/even numbered lines using g
I was looking for ways to search and replace on even/odd numbered lines in vim and I came across some solution on google groups https://groups.google.com/g/comp.editors/c/xk9DMoszgq4.
To search and ...
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Interrupt a global search and replace with confirmation
Far too often, I've started a global search replace with confirmation, and discovered part way thru that I should have done a different search. Here's a silly example
he
he1
he
the2
he
them
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Illegal back reference when trying to delete \1
I have a bunch of expressions (matlab anonymous functions) of the form, for example
`f\^I = @(x,y,z) x^y + z`,
`g1\^I\^I = @(z,b,c) z^b + c`
(where \^I means a tab, but I can't just write that in ...
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