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:help :v will tell you: :[range]v[global]/{pattern}/[cmd] Same as :g!. Where: :[range]g[lobal]!/{pattern}/[cmd] Execute the Ex command [cmd] (default "

by efaref 11y ago

:help :v will tell you: :[range]v[global]/{pattern}/[cmd] Same as :g!. Where: :[range]g[lobal]!/{pattern}/[cmd] Execute the Ex command [cmd] (default ":p") on the lines within [range] where {pattern} does NOT match. So :v/error/d will delete all lines that don't contain the string "error".

creshal 11y ago
Which neatly maps to grep's -v option that does the same.
- amelius 11y ago
  I always thought "-v" meant "verbose" traditionally in Unix command line options.
  - creshal 11y ago
    No tradition without exceptions.
chris_wot 11y ago
Oh! I've been messing about with a bit of splitting up of C++ classes into seperate headers as a bit of a test and I recently did a: sed -i "/#include <vcl\/button\.hxx>/d" $(git grep -l "vcl\/button\.hxx" *.hxx | grep -v precompiled) Knowing about a :v might have been helpful...