Re: autocommand to replace special characters into a file.

Hello All,

Hello Ben and Tony,

 

Here I'm reposting my message.

 

indeed Tony helped me a lot there was a missing % to substitute all occurences of the searched string into the edited file.

 

This is what I will have in my command:

  

au VimEnter,BufNewFile,BufRead,BufEnter  *.log  %s/^M\|^A/ |

 

Now the question is :

1 - how to I type ^A special ?  I know how to type ^M with <CTRL-V> but not  ^A

2 - in case there's no ^M or ^A to be replaced in my *.log file, how to make it silent ?

 

 

Hope my questions are clear.

 

Thank you again for your help and attention.

 

Eddine.

 

 

 

2011/11/14 Eddine <bmokadem@googlemail.com>

Hello

 

 

 

 

At work I have to edit regurlarly files containing special characters like ^M or ^A

 

for the moment Im' at the first stage where I just try to make replace a string by another one in my autocommand:

 

 

au VimEnter,BufNewFile,BufRead,BufEnter  *.log  s/string1/string2/

 

 

 

But this doesn't give me good results:

Wehn opeining a .log file, Vim prompts me to know if I want to replace the first occurence ;

hitting "y" (yes key) change the first matching one then brings me error messages :

 

E488: trailing characters

E486: pattern not found string1

 

Any mean to make it replace all matching strings whitout prompting and without error ?

 

Thanks in adavance for your help.

 

Eddine.

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