Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:24:26 05/15/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 13:31:03, Frank Phillips wrote: >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. In working with C/C++ programs you probably should do this: :set nomagic in your .exrc file... That turns off the meta-characters, particularly *, [ and ] which are common C characters as well...
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