As Drew Neil instructed us in Practical Vim, it's great to decouple search (/) and Ex command (:) operating on the search.
Note: You need very magic mode to forget about escaping regex syntax!
As I am in a data wrangling mode, it's just wonderful.
Step-1: Search with a search command using very magic mode
Start search ith \/v<regex>
I need hit multiple matches.
Often terraform workspaces that failed apply during mass-rollout. I need another retry with the failed ones.
Say foo, bar and acme failed.
These can be substring of complicated names. They are unique enough.
\/vfoo|bar|acme
Wonderful, we have the match. Now we can operate.
Step-2: Modify with an ex command
This regex pattern will match either "foo" or "bar" or "acme" strings
- Then you can use — for example — one of my three favorites,
g##d,v##d,s###g -
:g##d— delete lines with matches -
:v##d— delete lines without matches -
:%s##<replace_string>#g— replace matches with