Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Re: vim can't find carriage returns

On 25/05/11 02:08, Dave Land wrote:
[...]
> PS: While reading up on this, I discovered something new, at least to me:
>
> Save typing by using \zs and \ze to set the start and end of a pattern.
>
> For example, instead of:
>
> :s/Copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved/Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved/
>
> Use:
>
> :s/Copyright \zs2007\ze All Rights Reserved/2008/
>
> How cool is that?
>

Quite cool, and of course, in this particular case you could even do

:s/Copyright 200\zs7\ze All Rights Reserved/8/

;-)


Best regards,
Tony.
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