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Comment the if statement and the matching endif keyword

In vim, I can find the matching if statement and prepend the appropriate comment symbol. (e.g. %s/.alarm./#\0/g), but then I am left with dangling endifs that I have to find manually. I could simplify ...
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exact match in regrex when using vim, man, or less

when using vim, man, or less, I want to do some exact match in regrex for example, when using man, I want to check the argument '-c' if I use /'-c' the matching could be -cim ...
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Match word containing characters beyond a-zA-Z

To match a word one can use \v(\w+) From the vim help :h \w: \w word character: [0-9A-Za-z_] This works exactly as described in the manual. However, I want to match words that contain ...
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How to add a line in many files

I have many .html files and I need to add a meta tag after <head>'s start tag in each file. How I can do that? Can vim help me?
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How to reverse-match a string in the Vim programming language?

I want to find the last index of any character in the [abc] set in the abcabc string but the search should start from the end of the string: " Returns the 0th index but I want the 5th. let ...
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103 views

Using Regex in vim movment

Is there any way to use regular expression for movement in vim. For example, I want to move my cursor to the first occurrence of the pattern abc. So can I do something analogous to fa but now a ...
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195 views

VIM see regular expressions matches as you type

If I type /regex then the cursor temporarily jumps to the first match and all matches are highlighted. This updates as I type. Is it possible to get this behavior when I'm getting ready to make a ...
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Replacement in VIM with regular expression matched part unchanged

Suppose I want to append two digit numbers in my file with "some_thing". Like from this: 12 23 45 to 12_something 23_something 45_something How can I do this using regular expression ...
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Multiply certain numbers in a text -file by certain constant

I want an alternative solution to this jQuery hack, tasting a bit reinventing the wheel -- look I am sure I could do this with some one-liner using basic *ix tools. Look much easier and ...
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791 views

Replace using VIM, reuse part of the search pattern

I am working with VIm and trying to set up a search and replace command to do some replacements where I can re-use the regular expression that is part of my search string. A simple example would be a ...
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143 views

Expand regex on multiple lines in Vim

I am working on removing comments from a C source file. Let's focus on multiline comments /* ... */ and ignore the inline ones (//) The following command seems to work with (solaris) sed: ...
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157 views

vim regex not need \ to escape

In Vim is there an option to write regexs in the same style as Awk for example/sp\{0,\}/ Would be /sp{0,}/
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What does . match?

In working with regular expressions, I have been told that a dot character . will match everything. Except for newlines \n. Are there any other exceptions? What about the NUL character \0, or the ...
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Replacing Multiple blank lines with a single blank line in vim / sed

Question more or less says it all. I'm aware that /^$/d will remove all blank lines, but I can't see how to say 'replace two or more blank lines with a single blank line' Any ideas?
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lookbehind and using it with grep in Vi?

Trying to get into Vi (not Vim), after learning Vim. Vim has a lookabehind like /\(Not this\)\@<!$, how to do it in Vi? If I want to search recurvively down directory in Vim, I could do :vimgrep ...