Global search & replace in Vim
Reza Beha
reza_beha@yahoo.com
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Greetings, friends.
I've been fruitlessly seeking a method for replacing every instance of a string in Vim, without needing to know a file length or row range. The best I've come up with so far is:
:s/string1/string2/g xxx
Where 'xxx' is the length of the file (like 317 lines, for instance). What is the proper way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
Migrating from VMS to Linux,
Reza
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<P>Greetings, friends.</P>
<P> I've been fruitlessly seeking a method for replacing every instance of a string in Vim, without needing to know a file length or row range. The best I've come up with so far is:</P>
<P>:s/string1/string2/g xxx</P>
<P> Where 'xxx' is the length of the file (like 317 lines, for instance). What is the proper way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.</P>
<P>Migrating from VMS to Linux,</P>
<P> Reza</P>
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