Re: Replacing a string which is in a line and not in the beginning?

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On 26 Jan 2014, at 5:59, Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Niels Kobschaetzki's message of Sat Jan 25 11:37:24 +0100 2014:
>> And I want to replace all occurrences of "- " when they are not at the
>> beginning of the line. So the above mentioned file should look like:
>
> There are always two ways to cope with this "if they are not". Fastest:
>
> (This assumses " - " is still meant to be beginnig of the line, thus
> even if there are leading spaces)
> :%s/^(\s*)- /\1DONT_REPLACE_THIS/
> :%s/- //
> # substitute DONT_REPLACE_THIS back:
> :%s/^(\s*)DONT_REPLACE_THIS/\1- /
>
> second way is looking up all that "no match" magic in :h regexp
> Eg: |/\@!| \@! \@! nothing, requires NO match |/zero-width| (*)

Good to know, I have to save this somewhere. Thanks.

Niels