On Wed, September 14, 2011 3:19 pm, Tim Chase wrote: > On 09/14/11 04:55, Christian Brabandt wrote: >> But of course you can achieve the same using a :s command. In your case >> you only forgot to include the "\n" in your pattern, so Vim leaves it >> in, which means you still have an empty line, but including it in your >> :s command should also work: >> >> :%s/foobar\n// >> >> deletes all lines ending in foobar. > > Just be clear (which it looks like the OP figured out), you would > really want > > :%s/.*foobar\n// > > Otherwise it will just delete from "foobar" through-and-including > the EOL. However, sometimes that *is* what you want, so it's > nice that Vim offers that too.
True. Thanks for the clarification. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
