Niels Kobschätzki-2 wrote > I have a file that looks like this: > - This is a te- st > - foo bar > > And I want to replace all occurrences of "- " when they are not at the > beginning of the line. So the above mentioned file should look like: > - This is a test > - foo bar > > I tried to find something and it seems that in "normal" regex I would > have to do something like ^.+(- .) or ^.? > <pattern> > but those don't work. > What do I have to do to get the replacements I want?
I'm fairly new to Vim myself, but I just tried this. I entered this into a new buffer -- - This is a te- st - foo bar - This is another - test I mean and ran this from the command line (using "x" as the replacement text) -- :%s/\v^(.+)\- /\1x/g and I got this: - This is a texst - foo bar - This is another xtest I mean Note that I used "\v" (very magic) to make Vim use regular expressions that the rest of the world understands. :-) -- View this message in context: http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Replacing-a-string-which-is-in-a-line-and-not-in-the-beginning-tp5720146p5720148.html Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
