I'd think something like: :%s/word1\(.\*\)word2$/word3\1word4/ Over each line in... | Hacker News

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		khedoros1 on March 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text Editor Performance Comparison I'd think something like: :%s/word1\(.*\)word2$/word3\1word4/ Over each line in the whole file, search for word 1 and word 2 (which is at the end of the file), separated by arbitrary non-newline characters, and change them to word3 and word4.

juki on March 23, 2017 [–]

The Emacs equivalent would be

    M-x replace-regexp word1\(.*\)word2$ RET word3\1word4 RET

Assuming you have `replace-regexp` bound to a key, it's practically the same. Works on the whole buffer (by default), or the region (if selected).

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