When I do complex substitutions, I want to see inspect subst,
undo the substitution, before moving to the next one match
(gnuemacs has something similar called "recursive-edit")
Eg. my file contains thousands of dates as seconds, and I want to reformat
the date (but seeing the context around the date)
:%s,\<\(1[45678]\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\)\>,\=system("date +' %F-%H:%M' -d
@".submatch(1)." "),gc
I need an option to show-susbt-pause-undo the substitution and continue to
next.
p[subst and pause]/u [undo, and goto next] in
The options y/n/a/q/l/^E/^Y
Help:
:h :s
[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
thanks
Mosh
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