Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Vim search and replace, with increment

:let i=1 | g/foo/s//\=i."morestuff"/ | let i=i+1
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6 comments:

  1. Nonsence3/26/2009 11:01 AM

    thanks mate :)

    usefull cmd :)

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  2. Unknown7/16/2009 9:40 AM

    Thanks for making vim even cooler!

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  3. baynaa2/03/2010 12:44 AM

    Works perfect!

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  4. Chris Hoffman5/12/2010 10:33 AM

    with backreferences?

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  5. unclechu12/24/2013 10:59 AM

    Perfect! But if needs submatch:

    First string
    Second string
    Third string

    let i=1 | g/\(str\)/s//\=i.' '.submatch(1)/ | let i=i+1

    First 1 string
    Second 2 string
    Third 3 string

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  6. Jerome5/15/2019 7:12 AM

    Wow it's 2019 and it is still very useful. Thanks!

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