[wellylug] vi(m) question.
Enkidu
enkidu at cliffp.com
Sat May 8 11:21:30 NZST 2004
On Fri, 7 May 2004 23:57:20 +1200, you wrote:
>1 first line
>2 second line
>3 third line and we want to leave this alone
>4 fourth line
>5 fifth line
>6 sixth line and this stays the same too.
>
>:%s/^\( \+\)/newtext\1/
>
>1 newtext first line
>2 newtext second line
>3 third line and we want to leave this alone
>4 newtext fourth line
>5 newtext fifth line
>6 sixth line and this stays the same too.
>
>If you use '\s' instead of ' ', it'll match other whitespace characters
>like tabs:
>
>:%s/^\(\s\+\)/newtext\1/
>
>There may be characters other than space and tab that it matches - I
>don't remember off the top of my head. :)
>
Thanks for that. I think the major problem was using \w when I meant
\s!
I guess that "\1" in the second half means "everything in the ( ) from
the first part".
The first bit means "at the start of the string remember everything
including the white space but what does "\+\" mean?
Cheers,
Cliff
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