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I have a simple vim problem that Google hasn't managed to help me with. Any thoughts are appreciated.
I do the following search and replace:
:s/numnodes/numnodes1/g On a file containing the following text:
numprocs=0 numnodes=0 I get
E486: Pattern not found The position of the green square which indicates where I'd start typing is clearly above the pattern. I tried searching for other short phrases not involving regex, which are also present, which also fail. A simple /numnodes highlights matches as expected. Does anyone have any idea what might be the matter with vim?
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Basic Find and Replace In Vim, you can find and replace text using the :substitute ( :s ) command. To run commands in Vim, you must be in normal mode, the default mode when starting the editor. To go back to normal mode from any other mode, just press the 'Esc' key.
To search in the current file, you just need to type / in normal mode. Then, you need to type your search pattern, press enter , and the result becomes highlighted in your file. To go backward and forward through the results, you can type n and N (for n ext) respectively. Using / will search forward in the file.
After running a search once, you can repeat it by using n in command mode, or N to reverse direction. When you want to search for a string of text and replace it with another string of text, you can use the syntax :[range]s/search/replace/.
^ * $ \ ? ) have special significance to the search process and must be “escaped” when they are used in a search. To escape a special character, precede it with a backslash ( \ ). For example, to search for the string “anything?” type /anything\? and press Return.
Try :%s/searchphrase/replacephase/g
Without the % symbol Vim only matches and replaces on the current line.
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try using this:
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