I know the regex for doing a global replace,
%s/old/new/g How do you go about doing an interactive search-replace in Vim?
I know the regex for doing a global replace, %s/old/new/g How do you go
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I know the regex for doing a global replace,
%s/old/new/g How do you go about doing an interactive search-replace in Vim?
Add the flag c (in the vim command prompt):
will give you a yes/no prompt at each occurrence of ‘old’.
Vim’s built-in help offers useful info on the options available once substitution with confirmation has been selected. Use:
Then scroll to section on confirm options. Screenshot below:
For instance, to substitute this and all remaining matches, use
a.