Just a self-post here to help serve as a reminder that the non-greedy search operator for vim is .\{-} instead of the .*? in most languages. This was useful when attempting to replace bad image paths for a template file that contained lots of images that were hosted on various servers and I wanted to consolidate them to get around security warnings. The search command string in vim then ends up as:
:/src=\".\{-}\.\(gif\|png\|jpg\)\"/
This can be combined with a search and replace command as:
:%s/src=\".*\(\/.\{-}\.\(gif\|png\|jpg\)\)\"/src=\"myimagelocation\1\"/gc
Oh, and a super nice thing to know is that you can copy and paste from the cmd line in vim by hitting ctrl-f to open a new cmd window. This is great for saving thost extremely wordy vim regexes that you need to type over and over.
Is this a Kearns guest post? Or it must be work for Kearns. When the hell did you start using vim?
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Nope, I'm using Vim all by myself at work. I have found it to be ridiculously useful for regex find and replace in a single file and in multiple files. It's a HUGE learning curve, but I'm able to do some pretty cool tricks that would have taken me a long time in other IDEs. It works really well on extremely large files that would cause other IDEs to choke.
ReplyDelete@Kooshmoose: thanks a lot man... I was desperately searching for this!
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