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

> I'm fairly new to Vim myself, but I just tried this.
>
> I entered this into a new buffer --
>
> - This is a te- st
> - foo bar
> - This is another - test I mean
>
> and ran this from the command line (using "x" as the replacement text) --
>
> :%s/\v^(.+)\- /\1x/g
>
> and I got this:
>
> - This is a texst
> - foo bar
> - This is another xtest I mean
>
> Note that I used "\v" (very magic) to make Vim use regular expressions that
> the rest of the world understands. :-)

Not as easy. According to the documentation only alphanumeric characters, underscore and non-ASCII are guaranteed not to have special meaning in this mode. I.e. you must escape the space just as you escaped hyphenminus. Both though *currently* have no special meaning.

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