Replace All: :%s/foo/bar/g Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in all lines), and replace it with ‘bar’. For specific lines: :6,10s/foo/bar/g Change each ‘foo’ to ‘bar’ for all lines from line 6 to line 10 inclusive.
A word of caution: “the w in bw does not stand for write but for wipeout!” More from manuals: :bd Unload buffer [N] (default: current buffer) and delete it from the buffer list. If the buffer was changed, this fails, unless when [!] is specified, in which case changes are lost. The file remains unaffected. If you … Read more
Instead of .* use .\{-}. %s/style=”.\{-}”//g Also, see :help non-greedy
You need to create it. In most installations I’ve used it hasn’t been created by default. You usually create it as ~/.vimrc.
Unix uses 0xA for a newline character. Windows uses a combination of two characters: 0xD 0xA. 0xD is the carriage return character. ^M happens to be the way vim displays 0xD (0x0D = 13, M is the 13th letter in the English alphabet). You can remove all the ^M characters by running the following: :%s/^M//g … Read more
It is n for next and N for previous. And if you use reverse search with ? (for example, ?cake) instead of /, it is the other way round. If it is installed on your system, you should try to run vimtutor command from your terminal, which will start a tutorial of the basic Vim … Read more
Vim mailing list says (re-formatted for better readability): To change two vertically split windows to horizonally split Ctrl–w t Ctrl–w K Horizontally to vertically: Ctrl–w t Ctrl–w H Explanations: Ctrl–w t makes the first (topleft) window current Ctrl–w K moves the current window to full-width at the very top Ctrl–w H moves the current window … Read more
Yes. Hit Ctrl–R then “. If you have literal control characters in what you have yanked, use Ctrl–R, Ctrl–O, “. Here is an explanation of what you can do with registers. What you can do with registers is extraordinary, and once you know how to use them you cannot live without them. Registers are basically … Read more
=, the indent command can take motions. So, gg to get the start of the file, = to indent, G to the end of the file, gg=G.
Use: :%y+ to yank all lines. Explanation: % to refer the next command to work on all the lines y to yank those lines + to copy to the system clipboard NB: In Windows, + and * are equivalent see this answer.