Re: visual block search and replace

Reply to message «visual block search and replace»,
sent 13:20:28 14 July 2011, Thursday
by subith86:

> :s/\%V504\503/g
I guess you meant
:'<,'>s/\%V504/503/g
(though it is not related to the issue: s/\%V504\503 should not show «Invalid
character after \%»). I don't see any way to disable \%V neither at compile time
nor using some option, so maybe you have just typed \%v (note the case) instead?

I guess it may also appear due to too old vim. According to the help (:h new-
items-7) \%V was introduced in vim-7.0, so if you have older vim it won't work.

Original message:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do a search and replace inside a visual block as shown below
>
> :s/\%V504\503/g
>
> but it gives an error - Invalid character after \%
>
> Obviously, this happens in search too.
> /\%V504
>
> But the same works in another machine. So I doubt I'm missing some
> configuration in VIM or some VIM package needs to be installed. Please
> help.
>
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> Regards,
> Subith Premdas
>
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