Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

Hi,

thank you all for kind suggestions. I would like to use the simplest solution,

that is easily typed from the head and well understood. I specially like bellow

solution, that I have tested and it works fine.

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

Just one question,  why is there a "." character in command?

If I understand it correctly, a "." character means the line where cursor is,

and with the range used in global command, "current line" (the dot) is the

first line in range and that is the line with "XXX". If we simplify, we can

omitte the "." character and we get:

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

The above command means:

- search for the line where at the beginning of the line is XXX string, and this becomes beginning of the range,

- then search empty line "^$" that is actually end of paragraph, and this becomes ending of range,

- then execute search and replace command within (and including) beginning and ending of range.

Thanks for help

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