How Do I Change Wrap a Word in Quotes using Vi?

Joe Bologna

Mar 28, 2019 • 1 min read

According to http://vimregex.com, the {-} construct will do a non-greedy match. I've been searching for this for a long time. For instance, let's say I have used inline quotes for a Markdown doc and I want to change them to bold using HTML syntax. In other words go from this:

`HelloJoe`

to this

<b>HelloJoe<b>

I can use this Vi command:

:g/`\(\w*\)\{-}`/s;;<b>\1</b>;gp

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