[Cialug] vim global replace

[Colin Burnett]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> :s/^/'/g

Aside from the already answered use of % you can also do

<movement to first line>V<movement to last line>:s/^/'/g

V is visual line mode where you can highlight the lines you want to
apply the replace to.  Much easier if you want to do it on a few lines
without having to care about exact line numbers.

So :%s/foo/bar/g would be equivalent to GVgg:s/foo/bar/g in that way.


Colin