Find and replace all occurrences in Neovim

Find and Replace in Neovim

Basic command:

:%s/old_string/new_string/gc

Explanation

• :%s - command to substitute in the entire file.
• old_string - the text you want to find.
• new_string - the text you want to replace with.
• g - global flag to replace all occurrences in each line.
• c - confirm flag to ask for confirmation before each replacement.

Without confirmation

You can omit the 'c' if you want to replace all without confirmation:

:%s/old_string/new_string/g

Visual selection

To replace only in a selected visual block, select text in visual mode and then use:

:'<,'>s/old_string/new_string/gc

Explanation of the vim breakdown

• :'<,'> - this is the range of the command. In this case, it's the visual selection.
• s - the substitute command.
• old_string - the text you want to find.
• new_string - the text you want to replace with.
• g - global flag to replace all occurrences in each line within the selection.
• c - confirm flag to ask for confirmation before each replacement.