Re: vim | delete consecutive occurrences of a pattern

[A.J.Mechelynck]

A.J.Mechelynck wrote:

Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:

Hi,

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?:

while patternDoNotMatch
   %s/\(Pattern\)\(Pattern\)/\1/g
endwhile

Thanks in advance,

Nikos

Assuming it's the _word_ Pattern, not any text that verifies a certain _regular expression_ you can use (untested):

    :%s/\(Pattern\_s*\)*/Pattern /g

oops...

        :%s/\(Pattern\_s*\)\+/Pattern /g

Best regards,
Tony.

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