An introduction to regular expressions in Vim

This is a brief overview that covers probably 80% of typical regular expression use cases for refactoring applications.

I had a brain fart about halfway through, if you want to select a region based on regular expressions, your command is this:

:g/[pattern1]/ s/[pattern-to-sub]/[replacement]/[flags]

Not worth re-recording the video for one line :).

NOTE: It was pointed out to me that my history example would BREAK if the commands include a semicolon. This is absolutely correct. The date capture group could be done like this instead: (:\s+\d*:\d;) or is a little more sly way (:.\{-};). Thanks to u/pyz3n for the catch!

[MilMike]

cool video, learned few things here - didn't know such a preview search plugin existed, very useful - thanks

[DavidSoles]

Thanks for explaining such an amazing topic

[glyakk]

Was not aware there was a sort command. Good to know. Great video!

[avimehenwal]

Wow! This is just genius, thanks for the video...

[MyName-rkzh]

Useful stuff. Keep up with the good work.

[penvzila]

Transparent terminals are so 5 years ago

[benvella]

The very magic seems to me like it should be the default when dealing with regex, unless there's a silent way to do a regex search (as in very magic on by default)

[weedeater]

This is great, I just took a firefox backup html and got rid of a whole bunch of garbage in a few minutes.

Question, when you are doing %s/whatever yours is highlighting all of the occurrences rather than just the first occurrence like mine. How can I get mine to do that?