begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 01:52:53PM -0700: > How does one limit the range of the > vim multiline substitution command? > > i.e. > :%s/that/this/ > > will do a global substituion of this for that. > > But say I want to limit the substitution to > say ten lines from the cursor. I tried > :10s/that/this/ > > but it does not work. > > How does one do this?
:s/that/this/10 globally on each line? :s/that/this/g10 Or you can use line numbers :11,21s/that/this/ -- And then with vim, there's shift-v and move around. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
