Viper Is a Package for Emacs Rebels
4.2.7 Search and Replace
See section 4.1 Groundwork, for Ex address syntax. See section 4.7 Options, to see how to
get literal (non-regular-expression) search and how to stop search from
wrapping around.
- <count> /<string>
- To the <count>th occurrence of <string>.
- <count> ?<string>
- To the <count>th previous occurrence of <string>.
- <count> g<move>
- Search for the text described by move. (off by default)
- n
- Repeat latest / ? (next).
- N
- Idem in opposite direction.
- %
- Find the next bracket and go to its match
- :[x,y]g/<string>/<cmd>
-
Search globally [from line x to y] for <string>
and execute the Ex <cmd> on each occurrence.
- :[x,y]v/<string>/<cmd>
- Execute <cmd> on the lines that don't match.
- #g<move>
- Execute the last keyboard macro for each line in the region.
See section 2.4 Macros and Registers, for more info.
- Q
- Query Replace.
- :ta <name>
- Search in the tags file where <name> is defined (file, line), and go to it.
- :[x,y]s/<pat>/<repl>/<f>
- Substitute (on lines x through y) the pattern <pat> (default the last
pattern) with <repl>. Useful
flags <f> are `g' for `global' (i.e. change every
non-overlapping occurrence of <pat>) and `c' for
`confirm' (type `y' to confirm a particular
substitution, else `n'). Instead of / any
punctuation character other than <space> <tab> and <lf> can be used as
delimiter.
Note: The newline character (inserted as C-qC-j)
can be used in <repl>.
- &
- Repeat latest Ex substitute command, e.g. :s/wrong/right.
- :global /<pattern>/<ex-command>
- :g /<pattern>/<ex-command>
- Execute <ex-command> on all lines that match <pattern>.
- :vglobal /<pattern>/<ex-command>
- :v /<pattern>/<ex-command>
- Execute <ex-command> on all lines that do not match <pattern>.
