Re: New to vim: How to get the matched string in a search and use it in a replace

On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:05 AM, DK wrote:

> This should be straight forward but I can't readily find an answer:
>
> If I have a search:
>
> :%s/search_text.*more_text/replace_text/gc
>
> How can I access the matched text (note above the regex in the
> middle).
>
> For example I would want to do something like (coming from TextMate I
> could use the $0 value to access the match and use it in the replace):

Use & or \0 for the whole matched text and \1 for the first group matched inside \(\), \2... see :help sub-replace-special

>
> :%s/search_text.*more_text/replace_text$0more_replace_text/gc
>
> Where $0 would be the match and I would be appending to it.
>
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