Translate characters in vim like with tr

Question

I want to translate characters in vim like with the command line tool tr or with sed:

$ echo 'foo bar' | sed 'y/for/tes/'
tee bas

So I want to replace all occurrences of certain characters with other characters.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '22 at 02:01

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I don't know of a way you can do this with vim out of the box, but the plugin vim-abolish enables something along these lines:

:S/{f,o,r}/{t,e,s}/g

This will do the same thing as the sed command you posted.

answered Feb 26 '22 at 02:01

johnmastroberti

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '22 at 08:05

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You can filter the content of the buffer through arbitrary external commands with :help :range! so you can simply use the tools you are used to:

:%!sed 'y/for/tes/'
:%!tr for tes

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