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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: A vi question
Message-ID: <401@taumet.com>
Date: 16 Aug 90 14:59:05 GMT
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was@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Bill Stubblebine) writes:

|> I need to do the following in vi.
|> ccccoooossss -> cos

|:%s/cc*/c/g
|:%s/oo*/o/g
|:%s/ss*/s/g

This then also changes
	'accent' to 'acent'
	'loop' to 'lop'
	'ass' to 'as'.
I wonder if that is what the original poster had in mind.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com