Happy birthday Vim (2020)

Re:Happy birthday Vim (2020) by sciencesama on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:02PM (#29115001)

and i still dont know how to find and replace in vim !!

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Re:Happy birthday Vim (2020) by colordrops on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:25PM (#29115122)

Within a single file it's not that bad, :%s/<search>/<replace>/gc (with several variations on this)

Now across multiple files, that's a whole different story.. 'm a seasoned vim user and still need to look it up whenever I do it.

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Re:Happy birthday Vim (2020) by jonathf on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:10PM (#29132417)

:bufdo! %s/<search>/<replace>/gc to multi-buffer search-replace.

But depending on your starting point though, you might need need a vim $(grep -l <filter>) to get all relevant files into buffers.

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