On Jan 13, 10:37 am, stosss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Bee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correction: > > That should be \a not \w because \w includes 0-9 > > > :s#<a href="\(\a\{4,13}\)\d\{1,3}\.html">.*#\1#c > > I appreciate the effort but that doesn't solve the problem. Also > thanks for the knowledge of the \a because I didn't know that and I > don't remember seeing it in the help files. s/// is usually not a > problem for me but I can't find if the contents of a register can be > dropped into the s///. If not then I need to find a way to solve the > visual mode approach of grabbing the letters. It appears I am trying > to cross between normal, visual and command line at the same time.
Is something like this what you are looking for: copy the folowing line to register a using: V"ay > I need to be able to use visual mode to grab only the letters :echo substitute(@a, 'need', 'want', "") :help substitute -- 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
