Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim

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March 03, 2010, 17:40

@zebra24 : It's always helpful to have the regexp version for mass changes. Here's a few tricks to make that a little more palatable:

Very magic. eliminates lots of escaping by assuming the special nature of characters:

s/\v()/"\1"/g

Given that we're taking the whole match, we can skip the grouping, and since we aren't matching on the whole word we can skip the word-delimiters:

s/\v\w+/""/g

Which is something that I might actually stand to use instead of the manual method. Patterns full of backslashes, especially, make my eyes bleed. Cheers!

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