Search And Replace

Search

-	-
/foo	Search forward
/foo\c	Search forward (case insensitive)
?foo	Search backward
/\v\d+	Search with regex
n	Next matching search pattern
N	Previous match
*	Search for current word forward
#	Search for current word backward

Replace LINE

:[range]s/{pattern}/{str}/[flags]

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:s/old/new	Replace first
:s/old/new/g	Replace all
:s/\vold/new/g	Replace all with regex
:s/old/new/gc	replace all (Confirm)
:s/old/new/i	Ignore case replace first
:2,6s/old/new/g	Replace between lines 2-6

Replace FILE

:%s/{pattern}/{str}/[flags]

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:%s/old/new	Replace first
:%s/old/new/g	Replace all
:%s/old/new/gc	Replace all (Confirm)
:%s/old/new/gi	Replace all (ignore case)
:%s/\vold/new/g	Replace all with regex

Ranges

-	-
%	Entire file
’<,’>	Current selection
5	Line 5
5,10	Lines 5 to 10
$	Last line
2,$	Lines 2 to Last
.	Current line
,3	Next 3 lines
-3,	Forward 3 lines

Global command

:[range]g/{pattern}/[command]

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:g/foo/d	Delete lines containing foo
:g!/foo/d	Delete lines not containing foo
:g/^\s*$/d	Delete all blank lines
:g/foo/t$	Copy lines containing foo to EOF
:g/foo/m$	Move lines containing foo to EOF
:g/^/m0	Reverse a file
:g/^/t.	Duplicate every line

Inverse :g

:[range]v/{pattern}/[command]

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:v/foo/d	Delete lines not containing foo (also :g!/foo/d)

Flags

-	-
g	Replace all occurrences
i	Ignore case
I	Don't ignore case
c	Confirm each substitution

Substitute expression (magic)

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& | \0	Replace with the whole matched
\1...\9	Replace with the group 0-9
\u	Uppercase next letter
\U	Uppercase following characters
\l	Lowercase next letter
\L	Lowercase following characters
\e	End of \u, \U, \l and \L
\E	End of \u, \U, \l and \L

Examples

:s/a\|b/xxx\0xxx/g           # Modifies "a b"      to "xxxaxxx xxxbxxx"
:s/test/\U& file/                # Modifies "test"     to "TEST FILE"
:s/\(test\)/\U\1\e file/         # Modifies "test"     to "TEST file"
:s/\v([abc])([efg])/\2\1/g      # Modifies "af fa bg" to "fa fa gb"
:s/\v\w+/\u\0/g               # Modifies "bla bla"  to "Bla Bla"
:s/\v([ab])|([cd])/\1x/g         # Modifies "a b c d"  to "ax bx x x"
:%s/.*/\L&/                      # Modifies "HTML"     to "html"
:s/\v<(.)(\w*)/\u\1\L\2/g        # Make every first letter of a word uppercase
:%s/^\(.*\)\n\1/\1/              # Remove duplicate lines
:%s/<\/\=\(\w\+\)\>/\U&/g        # Convert HTML-Tags to uppercase
:g/^pattern/s/$/mytext           # Find and append text to the end
:g/pattern/norm! @i              # Run a macro on matching lines
/^\(.*\)\(\r\?\n\1\)\+$          # View the duplicates lines
/\v^(.*)(\r?\n\1)+$              # View the duplicates lines (very magic)
:v/./,/./-j                      # Compress blank lines into a blank line
:g/<p1>/,/<p2>/d                 # Delete inclusively from <p1> to <p2>

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