Vim visual selection and regexp

Question

I am having a problem with the visual selection and running a regular expression replace. When I select some text that does not contain the whole row, and hit : to bring the command line up, and do something like :s/T/t/ Then the first match on the line (whether it's selected or not) is changed. So, for example, I have the text Test Text here and I visually select the word Text, then run the above substitution, I end up with test Text here which is not what I want. Any ideas how to achieve the right result? Edit: The actual command line is '<,'>s/T/t/ as defaulted by Vim when you press : with a visual selection. JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

You can use \%V (see http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#//%V) \%V Match inside the Visual area. When Visual mode has already been stopped match in the area that |gv| would reselect. This is a |/zero-width| match. To make sure the whole pattern is inside the Visual area put it at the start and end of the pattern, e.g.: /\%Vfoo.*bar\%V Only works for the current buffer. So: :s/\%VT/t/ If you want to replace multiple hits, add /g :s/\%VT/t/g