Question

How can I swap the match and replace shown below?
//each line contains 5 s///g, shown below with only 2 s///g

:silent! %s/ó/ó/g | :silent! %s/ú/ú/g

to

:silent! %s/ó/ó/g | :silent! %s/ú/ú/g

Answer 1

In Vim: try this (using + as a delimiter). Note that this will not handle the special meanings of characters.

:s+silent! %s/\zs\(\%([^\\/]\|\\.\)*\)/\(\%([^\\/]\|\\.\)*\)\ze/g+\2/\1+g

With the verymagic option (\v):

:s@\vsilent! \%s/\zs(%([^\\/]|\\.)*)/(%([^\\/]|\\.)*)\ze/g@\2/\1@g