Vim tips
A collection of vim tips
Format visual selection to 80 characters
gq
Convert tabs to spaces
:retab
Substitute string with a period/dot in it
I wanted to replaced all instances of “f.” with “sf.”, my first stab was :%s/f./sf./ggg
However this made a right mess of the text, a quick chat with jamessan& on
freenode#vim reveraled that the first parameter is a regex, and a period in a
regex means any character, oops. The answer he pointed out is to escape the
period with a backslash, so :%s/f\./sf./ggg
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