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I'd like to learn how to search and replace in VIM - keeping the search string intact and adding to it.

Take this as a simple example. See image below. I copied a simple python script written for python2 and the goal is to make it compatible for python3. The print lines needs to be encapsulated with ().

I've entered :%s/".*" to regex all lines within two ". Now I'd like to add () on top of that string -> (STRING). So I have to somehow reference that search string and add to it.

Something like this

:%s/".*"/(SEARCHSTRING)

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  • To convert script from Python 2 to Python I strongly recommend 2to3.py: C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts\2to3.py -f print -f has_key -f tuple_params -f ne -f dict -f map -f filter -f except -f raise -f numliterals -w "myscript.py" Commented Feb 22, 2022 at 10:38
  • Thanks, didn't know about that. But I just used this script as a simple example. Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 8:23

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You can use & or \0:

:%s/".*"/(&)/

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    Teach a man how to fish: :h sub-replace-special Commented Feb 22, 2022 at 11:26
  • Thank you! I knew there was an answer. Didn't find it when searching online. Much appreciated. Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 8:24

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