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Note to self - vim :g

Tuesday, 11 November 2008  |  frederik gladhorn

While eagerly awaiting KDevelop4 to become stable (it crashes on me too often right now)... I'm back to forgetting vim commands ;)

To get a list of files on the left (still need to get comfy with it, but it looks useful) use the Project plugin

Substitute (replace stuff - I've used this so often that I remember, but maybe you don't yet?) :%s/what/with/g (with % on the entire file, without only current line) (g all occurrences in the line, without only the first hit)

Do something on lines that mach a search pattern (this is what I always forget because I don't use it that often): :g/search pattern/command

Delete empty lines using the above: :g/^$/d