Bernd Strohhäcker wrote:
Dr. Johannes Zellner schrieb:
Hi,
having marked a visual block with ctrl-v, I'd like to so a search /
replace only in that visual block. E.g. when selecting the right block
in:
xx xx
xx xx
xx xx
xx xx
I'd to do something like s/xx/yy/g which applies only to the selected
block. How can I do this?
Hi,
try Charles Campell's vis-script:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195
HTH, Bernd
Thanks for the pointer to this, it is a useful script, if Charles is out
there today, just a little point, it doesn't seem to like 'c' being used
in substitutions, don't know if you already new about that. But perhaps
I should give an example, if I have the text below, with the two columns
under fh in the top line highlighted, so the 6th and 7th character in
each line highlighted:
sdasdfhafdlhasdf
dsfhalshdflkashf
adfhalasdfhasdfl
asdfhaldfhlsadhf
sahdflakshfdl
then I use the command:
:'<,'>B s/l/m/g
I get the result:
sdasdfhafdlhasdf
dsfhamshdflkashf
adfhamasdfhasdfl
asdfhamdfhlsadhf
sahdfmakshfdl
as you would expect, all l's in these two columns have been changed to
m's. Now I do the same but I want to be prompted:
:'<,'>B s/l/m/gc
but this time I get this result:
sdasdafdlhasdf
dsfhahdflkashf
adfhasdfhasdfl
asdfhdfhlsadhf
sahdfkshfdl
fh
ls
la
al
la
Thanks for the script though Charles, I look forward to using it.
Rob.
