On 22/04/11 11:39, Ben Schmidt wrote:
On 21/04/11 8:37 PM, Kai Weber wrote:
Hi,
Currently my workflow replacing a visual selection is like this:
1. Go to Visual mode
2. Select text
3. y'ank
4. :%s/<c-r>*/foo/g
Something else nobody has mentioned is that putting \V at the beginning
of the pattern (for very nomagic) can at least lessen the number of
characters that need to be escaped. Not very helpful, but something
that's handy to know, perhaps with other more convenient uses.
Ben.
Whether to use very-magic, magic, nomagic, or very-nomagic may depend on
various criteria. Personally I stay with the default 'magic' state, this
way I don't have to remember more than one meaning for each pattern
atom, applicable everywhere including in mappings and functions, and
also to the great majority of patterns in stuff that I don't write
myself. (YMMV.)
What I do use OTOH is \c and \C to set or clear case-folding
respectively (my vimrc has "set ignorecase smartcase" which means: if
the pattern is all lowercase or all nonalphabetic, match case-folded; if
it includes at least one uppercase letter, match case-sensitive; but
sometimes I want to depart from my own defaults and some searches are
case-sensitive by default).
Best regards,
Tony.
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