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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for vi
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Date: 23 Jan 90 18:18:44 GMT
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In article <33664@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
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<Something else that I miss is the ability to specify ranges for ex-mode
<commands.  I often want to do things like ":7,38g/emacs/s//vi/g" but all
<I've figured out in stevie is a repeated search-and-replace (repeated
<"n." sequences) approach.

Correct syntax is:   :7,38s/emacs/vi/g

Try that and see if it works any better.
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