On Apr 1, 2014 10:44 PM, "Ethan Hereth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ethan Alan > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > John Beckett <[email protected]> [14-04-01 17:28]: > >> meino wrote: > >> > I often use a search'n'replace on an area, which is limited by > >> > a previously selected visual block. > >> > Additional hlsearch is on by default. > >> > After the searech'n'replace has ended, the found places are > >> > marked all over the whole text. > >> > This is often irritating to me. > >> > Is there a way to limit the highlights set by hlsearch to > >> > those place of the visual block area? > >> > >> As the other reply said, map a key to turn highlights off. See: > >> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_matches > >> > >> However, while not really helpful for what you asked, it is > >> possible to limit highlights to the last visually selected > >> block. See: > >> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace_in_a_visual_selection > >> > >> For example, consider these two searches: > >> /[abc] > >> /\%V[abc] > >> > >> The first finds all a or b or c, everywhere. > >> > >> The second finds the same, but only in the last visual > >> selection (what would be highlighted if gv were used). > >> > >> John > >> > >> > >> > > Hi John, > > > > thanks for your reply! > > I want to 'search and replace' not only to search. > > If I understand correctly, using /\%V in addition to '<,'> allows you > to search-and-replace ONLY in the visually selected area. This could > be handy if you have block selected (ctrl-v) a bit of text and want to > search-and-replace ONLY in that visually selected text. I.e. > '<,'>s/foo/bar/g will replace foo with bar anywhere in the lines > containing the visual selection, whereas '<,'>s/\%Vfoo/bar/g will > replace foo with bar ONLY in the region of text visually selected.
Not correct. It will replace foo with bar ONLY if *f* is in the region of visually selected text. Position of next letter (o) may be outside of the selection. \%V is zero-width match atom, not a regex modifier (there are some that control behavior of the whole pattern or the whole portion of the pattern that follows the modifier). > > To address your original question, it appears as if, at least on my > machine with my configuration, that using the \%V variant of this > search-and-replace the text will also only be highlighted in that > visual selection, so if you've replace all occurrences of the matched > text nothing will be left highlighted and you won't have to :set > nohlsearch. > > > I always thought that '<,'> already say: Do that only inside > > the visual block. > > Why do I need to specify \%V additionally. > > Or do I get all this totally wrong ?????? > > > > By the way: I treid to find the expression \%V inside the vim > > help...but didnt foudn a match. What is the correct > > keyword to find the according help? > > > > Best regards, > > mcc > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > 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/d/optout. > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. -- -- 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/d/optout.
