Re: S&R with search input from a file

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On 2014-04-27 09:35, Jeri Raye wrote:
> E486: pattern not found : \c\<\(<C-R>0\)\>
>
> Any idea why pattern isn't found?

It seems to be thinking that the <C-R> is a literal, not a
command to insert a register.

You can try the following, all done as Ex commands rather than
normal-mode commands:

:sview data.txt
:%y a
:let @/='\<\('.substitute(substitute(@a,'\n','\\|','g'), '..$',
'', '').'\)\>\c'
:q
:%s//\u&/g

This should

1) split "data.txt" in a new window
2) yank the whole thing into register "a"
3) make your search register become the transformation of the content
in register-a into the desired search query (wrapped in "\<...\>")
4) close the data.txt window
5) perform the substitution across your entire file, replacing the
first letter with its uppercase variant

-tim