Re: Problem using :g/pattern/command

On 12/06/11 17:13, Gary Johnson wrote:
> :%s/^.*[[:backspace:]]//
>
> but I'm looking for a more general solution that also fixes lines
> where the user has backspaced over a

You might try:

:%s/\(\_[^[:backspace:]]\+\)\([[:backspace:]]\+\)/\=strlen(submatch(1))==strlen(submatch(2))?'':(submatch(1)[:(strlen(submatch(1))-(strlen(submatch(2))+1))])/ge

It's a bit ugly, but seems to work pretty quickly against all the
tests I threw at it.

-tim

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