SearchFind and Replace in Vim

In Vim, you can find and replace text using the :substitute ( :s ) command. To run commands in Vim, you must be in normal mode, the default mode when starting ... Basic Find and Replace · Case Sensitivity · Search Range

I DO know the basic search and replace functions like %s/<search_term>/<replace_term>/g (add c if you want to confirm each replacement).

A one step solution would be to match all cases of savings[A-Za-z] and replace everything but the last character with savings-.

This command will normally replace the first match on a line; With the g flag it will replace all occurrences.

I wanted to prepend them with the time in a human readable form. The following vim command matches the timestamp (submatch 1) and the message ( ...

I am working with VIm and trying to set up a search and replace command to do some replacements where I can re-use the regular expression that is part of my ...

:s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ is the substitute command. The percent sign in :%s makes it work on the whole file, rather than just the current line.

The :substitute command searches for a text pattern, and replaces it with a text string. There are many options, but these are what you probably want. Basic search and replace · Using the current word or... · Additional examples

The simplest way to perform a search and replace in Vim editor is using the slash and dot method. We can use the slash to search for a word, and ...

I have a file that has multiple lines where it says borderWidth: 1 . I want to replace all of these so they say borderWidth: 4 .