Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

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From: "Salman Halim" <salmanhalim@gmail.com>
To: "Vim Users" <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 19 Sep, 2020 At 15:48
Subject: Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 10:41 'c.willis111@btinternet.com' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:

------ Original Message ------
From: "Salman Halim" <salmanhalim@gmail.com>
To: "vim_use" <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 19 Sep, 2020 At 14:15
Subject: Re: How to replace string in specific paragraph only?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 08:08 Sven Guckes <guckes@guckes.net> wrote:

* Igor <igor2x@gmail.com> [2020-09-19 12:55]:
> I have the following sample text file: ...
> *REPLACE RULE:*
> I need to replace string "aaa" with "bbb"
> only in paragraphs that starts with "XXX".

:g/^XXX/?^$?,/^$/s:aaa:bbb:g

i wish i could write that with less characters. ;)

Sven

I can't think of a more efficient way. The only suggestion is to perhaps replace the last 'g' with a 'ge' on the off chance that a paragraph doesn't contain the text so that the whole thing won't give an error message.

Salman

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Hi

didn't work for me - said bad range or words to that effect. This does:

:g/^XXX/.,/^$/s:aaa:bbb:g

I don't imagine aaa can occur in some other word, but in case, perhaps \<aaa\>.

Chris W

You're going from the line that contains the text to the end of the paragraph. Sven's solution didn't assume that the line was at the beginning of the paragraph and started by first going back up to a blank line, just in case.

What happened when you tried it?

I didn't type it in, because I'm using my mobile phone right now, but it looked okay. Again, other than the addition of the e at the end.

Salman

Hi Salman

:g/^XXX/?^$?,/^$/s:aaa:bbb:g
E16: Invalid range
Press ENTER or type command to continue

It seems to me that the start line of the range we need is the current line with the XXX.

regards - Chris

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