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user2661518
user2661518

Reputation: 2755

Forcefully quit vim even if pattern not found

I am using command :%s/foo/bar/g | wq to find and replace using vim. It works fine if pattern is available but if pattern isn't available it Error detected while processing command line: E486: Pattern not found: foo How can I forcefully exit even if pattern isn't found? I tried wq! in above command but didn't help

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1102

Answers (2)

Petrus
Petrus

Reputation: 69

Every time I tried to exit with :q it gave me an error message "E486: Pattern not found:..."

If I press ":" it appears "?" and instead of :q appeared ?q and gave me the error message: "E486: Pattern not found:..."

Cause? Instead of the US keyboard, I had set the Romanian (Standard) keyboard. And instead of ":" type "ș" (special Romanian character). I set back to US keyboard and everything was solved.

Upvotes: 0

ryuichiro
ryuichiro

Reputation: 3875

The problem is with substitute issuing the error. You can set the flag e

:%s/foo/bar/ge | wq

which should prevent the "No match" error from breaking a mapping or commands.

Upvotes: 3

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