Re: A 'visible within the window' range?

On 04/27/2010 06:36 PM, AK wrote:
> On 04/27/2010 07:22 PM, Duane Johnson wrote:
>> So the % symbol is a special range that means 'the whole file'. Is
>> there a similar special symbol that means 'what is visible in the
>> window'?
>
> HVL

For the uninitiated, that terse 3-character response means

H go to the top line displayed on the screen
V go into line-wise visual mode
L go to the last line displayed on the screen

at which point, if you press ":", it will prepopulate the
command-line with

:'<,'>

for the highlighted range (which now covers the lines visible on
the screen) at which you can then type your command:

:'<,'>s/foo/bar/g

As an interesting side-note, assuming "*" isn't in your 'cpoptions'

set cpoptions?

once you've highlighted a range the first time, you can use your
original syntax

:*s/foo/bar/g

as a shorthand for ":'<,'>s/foo/bar/g", as detailed at

:help cpo-star
:help :star

Hope this helps,

-tim

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