On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
Hi,
I just experienced some unexpected behaviour with a simple
substitution command and wonder if somebody could explain this to me.
Example text lines to be selected for my question:
o.......Open files, directories and bookmarks....................
go......Open selected file, but leave cursor in the NERDTree.....
t.......Open selected node/bookmark in a new tab.................
T.......Same as 't' but keep the focus on the current tab........
i.......Open selected file in a split window.....................
gi......Same as i, but leave the cursor on the NERDTree..........
s.......Open selected file in a new vsplit.......................
I know that
:'<,'>s/\.\+$//
would remove all trailing dots.
But why does
:'<,'>s/\./ /g
only change the first set of '.' of every line and not the trailing '.'?
I can't find any reason why this does not do the job
(: albeit a silly job, but that's irrelevant :)
Are you sure it's not doing the job? If you use the lines you sent, how
many substitutions does it report? I get:
151 substitutions on 7 lines
If you navigate to one of the seemingly-unreplaced periods and type ga,
what do you get?
For a split-second I thought I was seeing what you reported, but it's
just my settings, since I have the 'trail' suboption of 'listchars' set.
What does this return:
:verb se lcs?
If that returns something for 'trail:X' (where the X looks like a
period), that's the culprit. You could probably set it to show up as a
different color, if that helps:
:hi SpecialKey guifg=Red
I am using MacVim 7.3 (patches: 1-390, snapshot 64) dd 02/01/20112 by
Bjorn Winckler (thanks Bjorn).
I'll try to check on that version when I'm in to work.
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Best,
Ben
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