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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for vi
Message-ID: <33785@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 90 03:23:29 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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I sez:
-commands.  I often want to do things like ":7,38g/emacs/s//vi/g" but all

brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) <63@vidiot.UUCP> :
-Correct syntax is:   :7,38s/emacs/vi/g
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-Try that and see if it works any better.


Well whattaya know...  it works in stevie, and in the Ultrix vi!  I've
always used the syntax I showed above, on VAXen, and that worked so I
never tried alternatives.

(My form is defensible:  it's documented to say "search lines 7 thru 38
for the string /emacs/, and replace that string on all matching lines
with the string /vi/ as often as it appears within each line".)

Thanx, Vid!