I used this pattern to select sections of test that belong to me
when CVS or SVN generates a merge conflict. This pattern works fine:
/^<<<<<<<\_.\{-}=======.*$/
I have search highlighting turned on and I can see the multiline
patterns get highlighted as expected.
Then I tried to delete all of those highlighted areas by using
the global command:
:g//d
This didn't work. It would delete the FIRST line of the pattern match, but
leave all the other lines. So I figured that maybe there was some trick to
using // to recall the last search pattern that I was not aware of, so
I tried typing in the pattern to :g:
:g/^<<<<<<<\_.\{-}=======.*$/d
Again, this would only delete the first line of the pattern match.
>From the vim :g documentation I read this:
The global commands work by first scanning through the [range] lines and
marking each line where a match occurs (for a multi-line pattern, only the
start of the match matters).
What is the best way to do what I am trying to do?
I want to delete all text that matches a pattern, including
multi-line patterns.
Yours,
Noah
