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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T16:11:31+00:00 2026-06-17T16:11:31+00:00

In Vim regular expression, I know it is possible to replace foo by bar

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In Vim regular expression, I know it is possible to replace foo by bar on all lines starting with % using

:g/^%/s/foo/bar/g

but I want to replace foo by bar on all lines NOT starting with %. Is there a way to easily do so?

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    2026-06-17T16:11:31+00:00Added an answer on June 17, 2026 at 4:11 pm

    You can just negate the % character using character class: –

    :g/^[^%]/s/foo/bar/g
    

    [^%] match any character except %, at the start of the string.

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