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From: 0004068145@mcimail.com (Ari Kahan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Turning the into an
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Date: 7 Dec 90 15:48:02 GMT
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>joshi@motcid.UUCP (Abhay B. Joshi) writes:
>> I have a simple text-file containing the following text (3 lines):
>>
>>      The goal:
>>      All I am trying to do is replace the 'the's by 'an's.
>>      That's all.

ANNOUNCING:  (drum roll....)  THE *SLICK* WAY TO DO THIS IN VI!

:g/\<the\>/s//an/g

This will not turn theatre into anatre, or Xanthe into Xthean.

--Ari Kahan
(I can't afford a nifty signature-thingie).