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

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On 25 Jan 2014, at 22:17, ZyX wrote:

>> 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.

Good to know about \v. That would have solved it really fast ^^

Niels