Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

Re:Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText by weaksauce on Saturday April 06, 2013 @02:35PM (#5504517)

visual selection replacement is good too.

:'<,'>s/this/to that/g

I think vim does that automatically when you have a selection active and hit :

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Re:Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText by caioariede on Saturday April 06, 2013 @04:46PM (#5504986)

Note that this will replace over the entirely lines even if it's a blockwise selection.

So you might consider using :'<,'>s/\%Vthis/to that/g

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Re:Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText by weaksauce on Saturday April 06, 2013 @10:41PM (#5505895)

It might be a setting or something but it definitely doesn't do that on my machine or the linux machine I have in the cloud.

this ipsum dolor sit amet

select the middle 3 lines and do what I said will give you:

this ipsum dolor sit amet

to that ipsum dolor sit amet

this ipsum dolor sit amet

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