Hi Jakykong, love the name :)
(I was a big Kong fan in my time) I think I wasn't explaining myself clearly. Also I was a bit confused. What I was trying to do was this: (AutoIt3 BASIC) ===== Dim $K_MAINGUIWIDTH $K_MAINGUIWIDTH = 320 .. GUICreate( "hello world!", 200, 100 ........ ===== say I'm interested in that string $K_MAINGUIWIDTH right at the top there it's a GUI in AutoIt3 I was looking change the GUICreate to use $K_MAINGUIWIDTH instead of a set 200 I got confused because /RANGE/ and s// are different. The /RANGE/s//NEW TEXT/ is a special case where Vim lets you use the previously used pattern as the search pattern in the s// In fact my replacement can be achieved in s// exclusively you do: 1s/\(\_.\{-}\)\($K_MAINGUIWIDTH\)\(\_.\{-}\)200/\1\2\3\2/ ask Vim to go skip through the entire fie \_.\{-} until it matches $K_MAINGUIWIDTH then keep going \_.\{-} until you match 200 then your substitute string you just put those things back \1\2\3 then add your desired string \2 Works for me! Cheers, Pablo. On 3/21/17, jakyk...@theanythingbox.com <jakyk...@theanythingbox.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 10:28:23 AM UTC-7, Pablo Contreras wrote: > >> >> my previous trick: >> >> :/kites/s//...... / >> >> doesn't work here because I'm trying to match both 'kites' and 'and >> bikes' >> >> Is this too ambitious? >> >> Thanks in advance! Pablo. > > If you had searched /kites/ first, I'd suggest <C-r>/ to paste the search > register, but clearly that isn't what you're after. If you do it that way, > > /kites > :s/\(<C-r>/\)\(.*\)\(bikes\)/\3\2\1/ > > would shorthand typing kites (Just in case I'm not being clear about the key > sequence here, <C-r>/ means ctrl+r then '/', and these are two commands, one > to search and one to substitute) > > That works for your example on my machine. > > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_use/wKhhteq8SKI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.