Re: substitute on odd lines only

It works fine.
I never thought of using | after :g/pattern/
Thank you.

Le 30/07 - 06:29, Tim Chase wrote :
> On 07/30/2011 05:22 AM, ranousse@gmx.com wrote:
> >I want to perform a substitute command on odd lines only.
> >Is there some some "range" for this like sed 1~2 in vim?
> >Else do you know a better solution than
> >:%!sed '1~2s/pattern/replace/'
>
> Not natively, but it's easy to do something of the sort:
>
> :g/^/if line('.')%2|s/foo/bar/g|endif
>
> You can tweak the test for even lines:
>
> :g/^/if !(line('.')%2)|s/foo/bar/g|endif
>
> or for every 3rd line (or Nth):
>
> :g/^/if !(line('.')%3)|s/foo/bar/g|endif
>
> -tim
>
>
>

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