VIM Find And Replace All Text Substitute Command

VIM Find And Replace All Text Substitute Command

To find and replace all occurrences of a particular text pattern in Vim, you can use the :substitute command. The basic syntax for the :substitute command is:

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:%s/pattern/replacement/g

This will replace all occurrences of pattern with replacement in the current file. The % symbol specifies that the search should be performed on the entire file, and the g flag specifies that all occurrences of pattern should be replaced.

For example, to replace all occurrences of the word "apple" with the word "orange", you can use:

:%s/apple/orange/g

You can also use regular expressions in the pattern and replacement arguments. For example, to replace all occurrences of a word that begins with "a" and ends with "e", you can use:

:%s/a\w\+e/replacement/g

You can find more information about the :substitute command and regular expressions in Vim in the Vim documentation by typing :help substitute and :help pattern within Vim.

Created Time:2017-10-30 14:27:31  Author:lautturi