Re: Visual + global substitution on part of a line replaces every occurance, even outside the selected region

On 2018-02-22 04:25, David Woodfall wrote:
> If I visually highlight part of a line and do a substitution
> using /g it replaces every occurrence in the line, even outside the
> visual range.
>
> Is there a way around this?

You want the "\%V" atom:

:help /\%V

so you'd search for

/\%Vpattern\%V

(you can omit one or the other if you only care whether it
starts/ends within the visual region)

-tim


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