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Feng Wang
Feng Wang

Reputation: 1594

All the special characters that need escaping in vim pattern searching/replacment?

Is there a list of them? I have a trouble when I want to replace {inspect.stack()[0][3]} to {inspect.stack()[0][3]} called from {inspect.stack()[1][3]} in my python code. And I cannot find a full list from internet.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 872

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172510

:substitute (the command)

To do a literal substitution, specify "very-nomagic" :help /\V (or escape all special search characters ^$.*[~) and "case-sensitive" /\C, and escape the :substitute separator (usually /) and any backslashes (\) in the source. Line breaks must be changed from ^M to \n. Taken together, for the pattern:

'\V\C' . substitute(escape(literalPattern, '/\'), "\n", '\\n', 'ge')

In the replacement, & and ~ must be escaped (in addition to / and \) if the 'magic' option is set. (\V doesn't work here). Cp. :help sub-replace-special

escape(literalReplacement, '/\' . (&magic ? '&~' : ''))

substitute() (the function)

Something similar applies to substitute() as well; & must always be escaped, as 'magic' is always set, and only ~ must not be escaped:

substitute(input, '\V\C' . escape(literalPattern, '\'), escape(literalReplacement, '\&')), 'g')

Upvotes: 4

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