[Edinburgh-pm] vim question
Murray
perl at minty.org
Wed Mar 26 02:51:56 PDT 2008
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:11:07AM +0000, asmith9983 at gmail.com wrote:
> change all the colons(:) to a space( ).
Isn't that:
Shift + v (select whole line)
then
: s/:/ /g
> Obviously its a change to end of line only
Hmm, not clear how this fits with "all the colons", but if you just
wanted the last colon replaced:
Shift + v (select whole line)
then
: s/:\([^:]*\)$/ \1/
Which I think expands as:
: # colon
\( # start group
[^:] # anything other than a colon
* # zero or more of the previous character (aka, not colon)
\) # end group
$ # end of line
Which we replace with a space, followed by the contents of the matched
group (everything after the last colon).
If you want to select multiple lines:
Shift + v
then use the arrow keys, or j/k to select lines below/above.
then
: s/ ... / ... /
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