Hi, I am trying to match midway through a line and then continue to the rest of the file but it seems I am not allowed.
so say I have ===== 1. 2. mary 3. 4. had a little lamb ===== I am on line 2, right at the beginning Let's say I do: s/$/XXX/ I get ===== 1. 2. maryXXX 3. 4. had a little lamb ===== which you would expect. 'match end-of-line and starting there substitute with XXX' now let's start from the beginning: ===== 1. 2. mary 3. 4.had a little lamb ===== I want to do a similar thing but match now just the end-of-line itself but also everything that comes after: s/$\_.*/XXX/ apparently should match 'end-of-line, then using \_. any char including enf-of-line as many times as necessary to the end of the file. Then replace with XXX instead this happens: 'E486: Pattern $\_.* not found' ?!? does $ not mean what I think it means? because oddly when I wrote: s/\n\_.*/XXX/ it exactly gives: ===== 1. 2. maryXXX ===== which you would expect. so seems like $ doesn't really mean end-of-line in certain cases. I am a bit unclear about this. Can anybody explain strange behaviour? Thanks in advance!! Pablo. -- -- 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.
