Replace all in the current file instances of:
<a href=”link_to_somewhere.html”>link</a>
with:
<a href=”#”>link</a>
:%s/\(a href="\)\(\S\+\)\("\)/\1#\3/g
This is great if you’ve got a big HTML file that you want to demo to a client where you don’t want the links to do anything when clicked.
You could also use javascript to do the same thing – just “return false” for all <a> elements on the page.