Vim tips: The basics of search and replace (Linux.com)
Linux.com has some Vim tips.
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Vim beginners may be puzzled when it comes to doing search and replace operations in Vim. The syntax can be a bit arcane, but after you've practiced, it becomes second nature. Let's take a look at how easy it can be. Let's start by looking at searches and doing search and replace operations within Vim. You can do a search in normal mode by using /searchstring . This will search forward through the file for searchstring . Likewise, running ?searchstring will search backwards through the file."
Posted Jun 28, 2006 22:56 UTC (Wed)
by astrophoenix (guest, #13528)
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that was nice. I hadn't seen the b and e qualifiers to search before. I'm Vim tips: The basics of search and replace (Linux.com)
used to perl regexes, and I always forget which 'metacharacters' have to
have a \ in vim searches to work