On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 8:02:28 AM UTC-5, Igor Forca wrote: > Hi, > 1. create text file with the following three lines: > aa > ab > ac > > 2. turn on search highlight with: > :set hls > > 3. now jump to third row: > :3 > > 4. visually select whole line: > V > > 5. Now do the substitute with "c" flag (confirm): > :s/a/x/gc > > Now highlight search marks letter a in whole file, despite only line 3 was > selected with visual selection and it is obvious substitute will only be > affected on line 3. Is is possible to set that highlight search marks only > affected (by visual mode selection) lines? Like in example letter "a" in line > 3 only. > > Thanks
You could anchor the match to begin in the visual selection, using \%V -- -- 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.
