By default, :s/[search-term]/[replace-term] works on whole lines rather than on visual selections. For example, if you select between c and e, as such:
a b |c d e| f g
and do :s/ //g, the result is:
abcdefg
rather than
a b cde f g
Similarly, in a visual block selection:
a b |c d e| f g
0 1 |2 3 4| 5 6
:s/ //g yields
abcdefg
0123456
rather than
a b cde f g
0 1 234 5 6
Does anyone have a way to make evil-mode's :s/ work only on the selection (preferably by default, or alternatively with a keyword like vim's \%V)?
(:s/\%V //g does not seem to work in this case; it leads to 0 matches.)
Thanks beforehand.
You can do the replacement in a visual selection by specifying the range. '<,'> works on the first line to the last line of the selection, and `<,`> works on the first character to the last character. So in your first example of
a b |c d e| f g`,
using :`<,`>s/ //g will give you
a b cde f g
Unfortunately, Evil doesn't seem to currently support replacement in a Visual Block, so there's no easy way to do that replacement.