Which command is used to replace many characters?
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Answer / amita
change command can be used to change a word/line.
cw change word forward
cb change word backward
c$ change from cursor to end of line
cL change from current line to and of screen
cG change from current line to and of file
or if you want to replace all occurence of some specific
character
:%s/oldText/newText/g
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Answer / gourab ranjan seth
press esc, then R to replace multiple characters
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Answer / ali ahsan
Try
:%s/<Character1>/blah/cge | %s/<character2>/222/cge
and so on.
OR if you have to replace many charcters with single charcter you can try as mentioned below
:%s/<Character1|character2|.....>/blah/cge
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