Unable to replace single quotes surrounding string with double quotes like I can in Vim

[pushkin-]

I'm trying to replace strings surrounded by ' with ".

In Vim, I can do this:

%s/\'\([a-zA-Z-_]\+\)\'/"\1"/g

Which will change the input asd 'as-d_ad' asd to asd "as-d_ad" asd

In this extension, nothing happens. It can't find the match. I think this is related to the fact that some characters here aren't metacharacters even though they are in Vim and vice versa.

I tried something like this which did find the pattern, but it's replacing it with the literal "\1":

%s/'([\w-_]+)'/"\1"/g

• Extension (VsCodeVim) version: 1.3.0
• VSCode version: 1.32.1
• OS: Windows 10

[rickpr]

Maybe your use case is different - I like to use the vim-surround options though, it's enabled by default in VSCodeVim.

I place my cursor inside the string that I would like to replace the surrounding quotes and do cs"' and it does the replacement described above.

[myNameIsKeith]

@rickpr The 'cs' key sequence does nothing in VIM unless you have it mapped or have some other plugin that makes use of that particular sequence.

@pushkin-
According to the ROADMAP.md, "Currently we only support JavaScript Regex but not Vim's in-house Regex engine."

JavaScript uses the '$' character as a back reference rather than a backslash.

%s/'([\w-_]+)'/"$1"/g

Refer to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions#Using_parenthesized_substring_matches

[pushkin-]

@anotherKeith Thanks that works