Re: g[lobal] with s[ubstitute]

On 2013-06-18 07:35, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:44:33 AM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I think I'd prefer it as an extra response to the confirmation:
> >
> > :g/foo/s/bar/baz/gc
> > ...
> > replace with baz (y/n/a/A/q/Q/l/^E/^Y)?
>
> That would be much nicer (also for the current options) if the
> displayed text gave some hint what each choice will actually do.

I've seen other programs that use similar prompts adding a "?"
option that will elaborate on what the various choices do (e.g. "git
add -p") right at the prompt. I've used vim long enough to know what
that prompt means without looking it up (well, except for "l" which I
could guess, but don't use enough to remember off the top of my
head), but I agree that a simple

replace with $REPLACEMENT (y/n/a/q/l/^E/^Y/?)?

might make it easier to make the decision mid-replacement rather than
needing to abort, possibly undo multiple changes, and then visit

:help s_flags

to learn what they mean.

-tim



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