Issue
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Suppose I want to change
hl{abc}
{}
{
}
hl{12}
to
abc
{}
}
{
12
Basically I want to remove hl{}. How can I do this in vim? I was considering :s/\hl{.*}//g but that also takes away the text in between.
Solution
You can use \(…\) (see :help /\() to capture the text in between, and use \1 (see :help s/\1) to make use of it in the substitution: :s/\\hl{\(.*\)}/\1/g.
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