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From: ted@isgtec.uucp (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi: search for or go to a line not of length n
Keywords: vi search goto uudecode
Message-ID: <669@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 90 15:00:26 GMT
References: <lee.654252627@chsun1> <1990Sep25.135441.10647@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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In article <1990Sep25.135441.10647@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) writes:
: In article <lee.654252627@chsun1> lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) writes:
: >Most uuencoded lines are 61 characters long.  I'd like to be able to search
: >for a line that isn't 61 characters long.  Any reasonably automated method
: >will do!  Regexps, macros... anything.
 
: I don't think theres any easy way to actually do this within vi. If you
: want to do this, use something like awk or perl.

How about

  v/^.............................................................$/<cmd>

This executes <cmd> for every line that does not contain exactly 61
characters (provided you type in exactly 61 dots :-).  <cmd> could,
for example, put a mark at the beginning or end of every line that you
want to edit individually.
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