Re: search and replace with word list

Hi,

jcordes wrote:
>
> Tim,
> I would like to have a better understanding of the line
>> :%s@.*@:-/MODULEX/s//&
>
> The two appearances of the @ symbol is puzzling me. Is this something
> to do with a search range for the substitute command, or executing a
> macro, or what?!

in the :substitute command you can use almost any non-alphanumeric
character for surrounding the search pattern and the replacement string.
Especially in this case this spares you the need for backslash-escaping
all the slashes in the replacement text. Otherwise you would need to
write

:%s/.*/:-\/MODULEX\/s\/\/&

You can read about this at

:help E146

Regards,
Jürgen

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