Re: Replacing a string which is in a line and not in the beginning?

Excerpts from Niels Kobschaetzki's message of Sat Jan 25 11:37:24 +0100 2014:
> And I want to replace all occurrences of "- " when they are not at the
> beginning of the line. So the above mentioned file should look like:

There are always two ways to cope with this "if they are not". Fastest:

(This assumses " - " is still meant to be beginnig of the line, thus
even if there are leading spaces)
:%s/^(\s*)- /\1DONT_REPLACE_THIS/
:%s/- //
# substitute DONT_REPLACE_THIS back:
:%s/^(\s*)DONT_REPLACE_THIS/\1- /

second way is looking up all that "no match" magic in :h regexp
Eg: |/\@!| \@! \@! nothing, requires NO match |/zero-width| (*)

Marc Weber

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