Hi I’m wondering if it’s possible to do this in Vim: You put up a command with a pattern, and the command selects the line (or offsets to select a few surrounding lines in addition to the line) that contains the pattern. Once all these lines that contain the pattern are selected, I want to do a pattern search and pattern substitution that is limited to only those lines that were selected by the first pattern.
I came across this search/replace in a visual selection link: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace_in_a_visual_selection :'<,'>s/red/green/g I would like the :'<,'> to be instead a (does it have to be visual?) selection of all those lines that contain the pattern. Then, I could do a substitution, or a pattern search that might further restrict the selection. Thanks for any help -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
