On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
OK, in this construct, the "10" is a repeat count.
A quick experiment shows it to be a repeat count of lines searched not
of successful searches. So it means "search the next ten lines for
/that/". Does not mean "search for the next ten occurrences of
/that/".
> globally on each line?
>
> :s/that/this/g10
>
> Or you can use line numbers
>
> :11,21s/that/this/
>
There is definitely more than one way to do it. :-)
My favorite recipe, which lets the computer count the lines so I don't
have to, is:
Navigate to the starting line, place a Mark there (e.g. a)
ma
Navigate to the ending line, perform action between Mark and Dot
(current position)
:'a,.s/that/this/
Mark and Dot sound very much like TECO constructs, come to think of it.
carl
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