Comments on: Worthwhile vim tips

By: happy bread

happy bread — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:26:24 +0000

Just have interest on that, but not so familiar with that, trying now.

Learning, trying, …

By: wolever.net/

wolever.net/ — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:31:09 +0000

Ah, ok. Normally I do it by selecting the lines in visual mode or visual-line mode, then `s/` over that.

By: lance_

lance_ — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:14 +0000

I use it maybe 10% of the time, generally when I’m splitting a method into separate methods while refactoring so I only want to replace some of the method calls.

I also recall a few places where doing piecewise regexps was more convenient than writing one big one.

By: wolever.net/

wolever.net/ — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:59:51 +0000

That’s a good set of things every Vimmer ought to know… Although, how often do you use search-and-replace over a range of lines (ie, :5,15s/foo/bar)?