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From: yuf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyle Grieser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: does vi have a search/deletion macro???
Keywords: vi, macros, TFM?, glasses
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Date: 8 Sep 89 06:55:32 GMT
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In article <4237@ncar.ucar.edu> morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) writes:
>   1) How can I search for a string and have all occurrences show 
>   2) delete all lines which match the above mentioned search.
>

I'm not quite sure I know what you mean here, but searches are really easy.
You can just use "/<string>".  Now if you want to delete lines that have
a match, you can do ":%g/foo/d".  This will delete any line with "foo" on
it.

>Does vi have macro capability (w/o changing the source or writing C
>stuff,  that's beyond me)?  Do I need new glasses to read TFM? 
>
>Can I combine some standard vi stuff and map it to a key? (I can do that ;-)  )

Yeah,  I'm not really sure about the man page, but it is in the standard
"heap-o-unix-manuals" that you should be able to find laying around.
Hope this helps.

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Kyle Grieser, Purdue University Computing Center
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