Vim Search and Replace Cheatsheat

Search and Replace

1. Utilizes a regular expression for searching every occurrence of [pattern] and replaces it with [replacement] without asking for confirmation.

   :%s/[pattern]/[replacement]/g

Now if your pattern contains forward slashes such as a https:// protocal you can use the # separator instead

This pattern is good for doing search and replace on an sql file.

   :%s#[pattern]#[replacement]#g

1. Same as the previous command but asks for confirmation before replacing each instance of [pattern] with [replacement].

  :%s/[pattern]/[replacement]/gc

1. Instead of replacing every single instance of [pattern] on your file, this Vim command will replace only those [pattern] that are in the current line with [replacement].

   :s/[pattern]/[replacement]/g

1. select some text and go into to visual mode vim will put charaters in the prompt for you, then on the end of that put your search and replace

s/[pattern]/[replacement]/