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GVIM. How to change certain words that match the pattern?

In normal mode I press +* and VIM highlighs the occurences of the word under cursor. How to change for example 2,4-5 (second, fourth and fifth) words in search results with %s command? I know I can use %s and to change the searched word in certain lines, but it is not what I need.

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Assuming you did a find first, you could use

:%s//replaced/gic

It will ask for each replacement if it needs to be done.

Lieven  2010-09-27 13:35:19

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