Replacing one line of code with another in vim?

Question

I have one line of code that I need to replace in Vim. I need to replace one line of code errors += 1; to errors++; just to simplify it.

When I do :%s/errors += 1;/errors++;/a I get E488:Trailing Characters.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I my vim 7.2 it works fine, however you can try this: :%s/errors\ +=\ 1;/errors++;/gc — JohnTortugo, Oct 02 '12 at 16:52
I did try the space delimiters but it seems to be the different flags at the end that did it — homersimpson, Oct 03 '12 at 03:45

pb2q · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02T18:33:10.423

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You have /a at the end as a flag: a isn't a substitute flag. Without the a this should work for you.

Use c if you want to manually confirm each replacement.

Use g if you want to replace all occurrences on a line.

edited Oct 02 '12 at 18:33

answered Oct 02 '12 at 16:54

pb2q

Thank you!! For some reason I had thought the /a meant "all" but the normal search/replace function without the flag did work perfectly! Thanks! – homersimpson Oct 03 '12 at 03:44

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