ZyX wrote:
Reply to message «visual block search and replace»,
sent 13:20:28 14 July 2011, Thursday
by subith86:
:s/\%V504\503/g
I guess you meant
:'<,'>s/\%V504/503/g
(though it is not related to the issue: s/\%V504\503 should not show «Invalid
character after \%»). I don't see any way to disable \%V neither at compile time
nor using some option, so maybe you have just typed \%v (note the case) instead?
I guess it may also appear due to too old vim. According to the help (:h new-
items-7) \%V was introduced in vim-7.0, so if you have older vim it won't work.
Original message:
Hi all,
I'm trying to do a search and replace inside a visual block as shown below
:s/\%V504\503/g
but it gives an error - Invalid character after \%
Obviously, this happens in search too.
/\%V504
But the same works in another machine. So I doubt I'm missing some
configuration in VIM or some VIM package needs to be installed. Please
help.
As written, I'd expect that vim would issue two messages for the given
substitute command:
E65: Illegal back reference
E476: Invalid command
so either a) the pattern isn't given correctly, or b) ZyX is right and
Premdas is using a pre-v7.0 vim. I suspect it was E71.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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