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 4.2.6 Changing Text
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 ‘<count> r<char>’
      Replace <count> chars by <char>; no <esc>.
 ‘<count> R’
      Overwrite the rest of the line, appending change COUNT − 1 times.
 ‘<count> s’
      Substitute <count> chars.
 ‘<count> S’
      Change <count> lines.
 ‘<count> c<move>’
      Change from begin to endpoint of <count><move>.
 ‘<count> cc’
      Change <count> lines.
 ‘<count> C’
      The rest of the line and <count> − 1 next lines.
 ‘<count> =<move>’
      Reindent the region described by move.
 ‘<count> ~’
      Switch lower and upper cases.
 ‘<count> J’
      Join <count> lines (default 2).
 ‘:[x,y]s/<pat>/<repl>/<f>’
      Substitute (on lines x through y) the pattern <pat> (default the
      last pattern) with <repl>.  Useful flags <f> are ‘g’ for ‘global’
      (i.e., change every non-overlapping occurrence of <pat>) and ‘c’
      for ‘confirm’ (type ‘y’ to confirm a particular substitution, else
      ‘n’ ).  Instead of ‘/’ any punctuation CHAR unequal to <space>
      <tab> and <lf> can be used as delimiter.
 
      In Emacs, ‘\&’ stands for the last matched expression, so
      ‘s/[ab]+/\&\&/’ will double the string matched by ‘[ab]’.  Viper
      doesn’t treat ‘&’ specially, unlike Vi: use ‘\&’ instead.
 
      Viper does not parse search patterns and does not expand special
      symbols found there (e.g., ‘~’ is not expanded to the result of the
      previous substitution).
 
      Note: _The newline character (inserted as ‘C-qC-j’) can be used in
      <repl>_.
 ‘:[x,y]copy [z]’
      Copy text between ‘x’ and ‘y’ to the position after ‘z’.
 ‘:[x,y]t [z]’
      Same as ‘:copy’.
 ‘:[x,y]move [z]’
      Move text between ‘x’ and ‘y’ to the position after ‘z’.
 ‘&’
      Repeat latest Ex substitute command, e.g., ‘:s/wrong/right’.
 ‘:x,yp’
 ‘:g/Pat/p’
 ‘:v/Pat/p’
      The above commands display certain buffer lines in a temporary
      buffer.  The first form above displays the buffer lines between ‘x’
      and ‘y’.  The second displays the lines of the buffer, which match
      a given pattern.  The third form displays the lines that do _not_
      match the given pattern.
 ‘#c<move>’
      Change upper-case characters in the region to lower-case.
 ‘#C<move>’
      Change lower-case characters in the region to upper-case.
 ‘#q<move>’
      Insert specified string at the beginning of each line in the region
 ‘C-c M-p and C-c M-n’
      In Insert and Replace states, these keys are bound to commands that
      peruse the history of the text previously inserted in other insert
      or replace commands.  By repeatedly typing ‘C-c M-p’ or ‘C-c M-n’,
      you will cause Viper to insert these previously used strings one by
      one.  When a new string is inserted, the previous one is deleted.
 
      In Vi state, these keys are bound to functions that peruse the
      history of destructive Vi commands.  Viper Specials, for
      details.
 

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