Find & replace: :s — Vim

The g flag is the difference between "the first one on this line" and "all of them on this line". Leave it off by accident and the other two matches quietly survive.

Vim Find & replace: :s

intermediate » Replace cat with dog using :s/cat/dog/

goal

the dog sat

scratch.txt

1 the cat sat

-- NORMAL -- 1,1

keys

your keystrokes appear here as you press them

NORMAL ~/learn/vim-motions · 1/2 · :s real vim keys trail · always esc in-editor

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NORMAL ~/memra/learn/vim-motions/substitute-line utf-8 LF