On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 05:00:29PM +0100, ropers wrote: > However, that's as inaccurate as, or potentially even more inaccurate > than your version, at least as far as vim-ilarity is concerned. My > awk-ward incantation matches vim's :%s/abc//gn precisely.
Not sure if this is less "awk-ward": :%!perl -0777 -ne 'print s/abc//g;' and then undo the change to the buffer - Kastus