Re: Need help with macro

On 2016-04-02 09:34, Dmitry Teslenko wrote:
> I have this block of text:
>
> START
> aaaa
> bbb
> cccc
> END
>
> I try to record a macro that perform substitutions between START
> and END. Say, I need to replace aaaa with ee and cccc with ff.
> Cursor is at START. I do visual selection and then search
> replace :<,>s My problem is macro execution terminates on search
> item not found.

The immediate solution is to use the /e flag for :s to ignore errors
when the pattern isn't found. That said, vi/vim excels at doing this
sort of manipulation:

:g/START/.+1,/END/-1s/aaaa/ee/e|.+1,/END/-1s/cccc/ff/e

or, making use of defaults for line incrementing/decrementing:

:g/START/+,/END/-s/aaaa/ee/e|+,/END/-s/cccc/ff/e

will do your entire file in one pass without macros.

-tim


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