Support `:g[lobal]/[pattern]/[command]`

[Leekao]

One of the main reasons I love VIM so much is the option to do "g/console.log/d" to clear out all the lines with console.log on my scripts, is there any chance of supporting it?

[jpoon]

This should work with neovim if you want to give it a try.

[remler]

The ability to do global search and replace is CRITICAL to a VI emulation. This is the single reason I would use the program. If it doesn't support global search and replace, for example by doing:

:g/old pattern/s//new pattern/g

then that effectively breaks the program for me I'm afraid.

[Leekao]

@remler Until this is added please note that you can just mark the lines visually and then use "s/old/new/g"

[SHanded]

Hmm, 2 years ago... not having much hope for global to be implemented at this point. It's one of VIMs absolutely most powerful features... such a pity.

[brianjmurrell]

:1,$<command> (i.e. :1,$s/foo/bar/) is a workaround, but I would imagine much less efficient as it's applying the command to every line instead of only lines that match a pattern as would happen with :g/foo/s//bar/.

But probably more important/annoying is just the lack of something that a lot of people have muscle-memory for.