Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:31:03 05/15/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 13:25:00, James Swafford wrote: >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 > >Have you tried using the \s escape character? > >s/some\sthing\swith\spaces/with\sthis/g > >-- >James I tried this. The real search string was /BoardT *pboard/ I think the problem was the * , where I did not do \* ...sigh.
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