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Subject: Re: Vim

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:22:46 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.

Works fine for me.  space is not any kind of special meta-character in regular
expressions.  I just did :%s/aa bb cc dd/xx yy/g and it worked perfectly...



>
>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



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