Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

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From: "Salman Halim" <salmanhalim@gmail.com>
To: "vim_use" <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 19 Sep, 2020 At 14:15
Subject: Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 08:08 Sven Guckes <guckes@guckes.net> wrote:

* Igor <igor2x@gmail.com> [2020-09-19 12:55]:
> I have the following sample text file: ...
> *REPLACE RULE:*
> I need to replace string "aaa" with "bbb"
> only in paragraphs that starts with "XXX".

:g/^XXX/?^$?,/^$/s:aaa:bbb:g

i wish i could write that with less characters. ;)

Sven

I can't think of a more efficient way. The only suggestion is to perhaps replace the last 'g' with a 'ge' on the off chance that a paragraph doesn't contain the text so that the whole thing won't give an error message.

Salman

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Hi

didn't work for me - said bad range or words to that effect. This does:

:g/^XXX/.,/^$/s:aaa:bbb:g

I don't imagine aaa can occur in some other word, but in case, perhaps \<aaa\>.

Chris W
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