Vim Examples: Search and Replace

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Search and Replace

Replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar'.

:%s/foo/bar/g

Case-insensitive Search and Replace

Replace all instances of 'foo' (case-insensitive) with 'bar'.

:%s/foo/bar/gi

Search and replace with regex

You need to escape (, ) and |.

:%s/\(foo\|bar\)/QUUX/g

"foo bar baz" becomes "QUUX QUUX baz"