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Replace
:s/foo/bar/g
Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in the current line only), and replace it with ‘bar’.
:%s/foo/bar/g
Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in all lines), and replace it with ‘bar’.
:%s/foo/bar/gc
Change each ‘foo’ to ‘bar’, but ask for confirmation first.
:%s/\<foo\>/bar/gc
Change only whole words exactly matching ‘foo’ to ‘bar’; ask for confirmation.
:%s/foo/bar/gci
Change each ‘foo’ (case insensitive due to the i
flag) to ‘bar’; ask for confirmation.:%s/foo\c/bar/gc
is the same because \c
makes the search case insensitive.This may be wanted after using :set noignorecase
to make searches case sensitive (the default).
:%s/foo/bar/gcI
Change each ‘foo’ (case sensitive due to the I
flag) to ‘bar’; ask for confirmation.:%s/foo\C/bar/gc
is the same because \C
makes the search case sensitive.This may be wanted after using :set ignorecase
to make searches case insensitive.