> Hi,
>
> this happened to me today. I had a line like this one
> ===================
> and I wanted to replace all characters by '-', so I could have something
> like
> --------------------
>
> I thought I could do it by combining 'g' and 'r' as I understood 'g' is
> good to repeat the same command over all chars in a line (like guu or gUU).
> However, I was not able to make it work.
> I ended up doing something like :.s/=/-/g
>
> Is not really possible to replace all chars in the current line with a
> combination of 'g' and 'r' commands?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jose
>
In Normal mode, IIUC g is not a complete command, but the first
character of quite a number of multikey commands, see :help g
To replace all characters in a line, I would use the :s[ubstitute]
command, as you ended up doing, or one of its variants:
To underline a (left-justified) heading:
yyp
then
:s/./-/g
The . range is optional, since the default for the :s command is the
current line. However the above method wouldn't work if there are hard
tabs in the line.
Best regards,
Tony.
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