How do I replace text in a file?

Find and replace text

1. Go to Home > Replace or press Ctrl+H.
2. Enter the word or phrase you want to locate in the Find box.
3. Enter your new text in the Replace box.
4. Select Find Next until you come to the word you want to update.
5. Choose Replace. To update all instances at once, choose Replace All.

How do I delete a word in vi?

To delete a word, position the cursor at the beginning of the word and type dw . The word and the space it occupied are removed. To delete part of a word, position the cursor on the word to the right of the part to be saved. Type dw to delete the rest of the word.

How can I do a’change word’in Vim?

1 You enter the first part of the command, what you are searching for: :s/find/ 2 Then you click <ctrl-r> and choose with the cursor the word you want to replace it with. 3 Then you click <ctrl-w> (small “word”) or <ctrl-a> (big “word) to paste the word under the cursor into the command line 4 Then you finish the command.

How to replace words in more than one line in the vi editor?

For example in the vi editor a file is created with 8 lines of the word today and I was wondering how I would change 4 lines to the word yesterday with once command. Most ex commands (i.e. commands invoked by pressing : (colon) then the command name) that act on the content of the file allow a range to be specified before the command.

How to replace a word in a buffer in Vim?

You can use the command: i.e. replace the word ‘today’ with ‘yesterday’ from line n to m. You can also do this over a visual or visual block selection, or use %s for the entire buffer. And you probably want /g at the end to replace more than one entry per line. – Xiong Chiamiov Oct 22 ’16 at 22:30 @XiongChiamiov Only in vim, not in plain vi.

How to select and replace strings in Vim?

I can do :%s/ / /g for replacing a string across a file, or :s/ / / to replace in current line. How can I select and replace words from selective lines in vim? Example: replace text from lines 6-10, 14-18 but not from 11-13. The :&& command repeats the last substitution with the same flags.