On 02/15/2018 06:54 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
The easiest way on most platforms is to just pipe it through sed which
does the dirty work for you:
:%! sed 's/old/new/2'
Yep, that would do it.
Sometimes the solution is to look outside of vim.
If you don't have sed available...
I shudder to think of such systems.
I have grown EXTREMELY fond of the standard unix text processing
environment.
I was creating histograms with awk earlier today. (Something like 20 of
them.)
...this would be the route you'd go.
:%s/old.\{-}\zsold/new
for just two, or more generically for an arbitrary Nth place (e.g. N=4)
%s/\%(old\%(\%(old\)\@!.\)*\)\{3}\zsold/new
where the "3" is N-1. Indeed ugly.
Ew. I think I'll step over that pile of annoying for now and stick with
your good sed recommendation.
Thus my recommendation for the simplicity of sed over the pure-vim
solution.
Indeed.
Thank you again Tim.
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