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From: emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 & vi
Keywords: BSD SYSV vi tabs
Message-ID: <1738@tws8.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 13 Sep 90 20:16:06 GMT
References: <6246@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <2141@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <4051@auspex.auspex.com>
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
...
>Here's an edited version of the "ex.news" file in the S5R3.1 source
>directory
...
>	8. added ed-like enhancement such that "s/text/%" will replace
>	   "text" with the righthand side of the previous substitute
>	   command.

How is this different from "s/text/~"?
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Eamonn McManus <emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie>	<emcmanus%cs.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
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