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Replace all occurrences of text block A with block B

visually select A "ay , visually select B "by then :s/<ctrl-r>a/<ctrl-r>b/g

Note: pasting in from register produces ^M and ^I in place of newlines and tabs. These need to be converted to \n and \t respectively.

(Technique also documented here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace)

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