I want to view my complex substitution is correct before moving to the next one in:
:%s,old,replacement, flags It is problem because my regex are mutliline spanning paragraphs, and easy to make a mistake in the replacement . So I have top stop and restart again to view each subst is correct. Emacs interactive search replace, has "," to view replacement before moving on: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Query-Replace.html Is this feature possible in vim? -- Mosh vim 8.2 :subst flags we have are: [c] Confirm each substitution. Vim highlights the matching string (with |hl-IncSearch|). You can type: *:s_c* 'y' to substitute this match 'l' to substitute this match and then quit ("last") 'n' to skip this match <Esc> to quit substituting 'a' to substitute this and all remaining matches 'q' to quit substituting CTRL-E to scroll the screen up CTRL-Y to scroll the screen down -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAF0uU3qPR9nK%3Dg9GAYj0QR1GLT1RXUW0vDde%3Dak9gwthc%3DFJqg%40mail.gmail.com.
