> I have a text that has many occurrences of a pattern . I want to delete > every consecutive occurrence, e.g. > > Pattern Pattern other text Pattern Pattern Pattern Pattern other text > Pattern Pattern Pattern > should look like this: > Pattern other text Pattern other text Pattern > > I've used: > > :%s/\(Pattern\s\+\)\(Pattern\)/\1/g > > but have to run this more than once with: %&g to result the wanted text. > > Can I do this with one command only? If not can I write a while function?:
You seem to be close. The following did it for me, :%s/\(Pattern\)\(\s\+Pattern\)\+/\1/g or, if you're lazy, :%s/\(Pattern\)\(\s\+\1\)\+/\1/g (no need to type the Pattern a 2nd time) HTH, -tim
