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Subject: Re: Vim

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 10:26:11 05/15/04

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On May 15, 2004 at 12:19:42, Frank Phillips wrote:

>How do you substitute a string with spaces in, in Vim?
>
>eg  %s:/some thing with spaces/with this/g
>
>does not work - because of the search pattern rather than the substitute string.
>
>I have read a lot, but other than concluding Vim can do almost anything, have
>not worked out how to do the above.  I would use fgrep of course in other
>situations.
>
>Frank
At the colon prompt %s/some thing that has spaces/changed to this

Works in my Vim...





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