On 09/14/11 08:45, Russell Bateman wrote:
Once I've typed in a command to search and replace for something, for
example:
%s/search/replace/g
how can I re-execute that command without retyping it? (I have a string
of source files between which I'm moving via :n each time and I don't
want to have to retype the command; dot won't work obviously.)
While you can use @: as others have suggested, that merely
repeats the most recent ex command, so if you've issued other ex
commands since the :s then you may want to use
g&
(or if you didn't use the 'g' flag, just use "&")
:help g&
:h &
The tricky part comes if you've done a search since the most
recent one, as the "g&" will use the search-register rather than
the actual search-re from the most recent :s command. I'm not
sure whether that's a bug, since it seems to not repeat the last
:s command as documented. E.g:
vim
5ix<esc>
Y5p
5ry
gg
:s/x/z/g<cr>
/y<cr>
g&
The "g&" effectively does a ":s/y/z/g" instead of the original
":s/x/z/g".
Granted, I almost never use "&" or "g&" as the "@:" usually does
the job for me (and if not, I can use ^P or <up> to scroll
through the command-line history to execute it once and then use
"@:" after that), but it's nice to have in the repertoire.
-tim
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