Re: Copying and inserting a word in a search/replace

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Colin Beighley wrote:

Hello,
I want to do something like this

word => ,

becomes

word => word,

with search and replace. Any suggestions?

s/\(word\) => ,/\1 => \1,/

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Ben

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Thanks! What I wanted was to match any word before the =>, as well as preceding tabs, so I ended up using

:s/\(^\t*\)\t\(.*\) => ,/\1\t\2 => \2,/

Colin

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