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Asked: June 6, 20262026-06-06T17:37:29+00:00 2026-06-06T17:37:29+00:00

I would like to use substitution in Vim to do unindentation manually (instead of

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I would like to use substitution in Vim to do unindentation manually (instead of doing <)

So I do this:

:%s/^(^I)?//g

but it does not find the pattern. what am i doing wrong?

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    2026-06-06T17:37:31+00:00Added an answer on June 6, 2026 at 5:37 pm

    Vim does not understand the Perl-ish regexp syntax that you seem to use. It must be:

    %s/^\t\?//
    

    The (...) is not necessary, and must be written as \(...\). Instead of \t, you could also press Ctrl + V Tab, or use the general atom for whitespace \s.

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