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From: carlson@mrx.webo.dg.com (James Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Doing an nfind in vi (:+,$v/string/a -- the better idea)
Keywords: vi nfind
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Date: 5 Jun 91 20:03:46 GMT
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In article <2803@pdxgate.UUCP>, a0cb@.cc.pdx.edu (Chris Bertholf) writes:
|> In article <3593@wn1.sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
|> >In <1356@dg.dg.com> carlson@mrx.webo.dg.com (James Carlson) asks:
|> >The best I can come up with is
|> >
|> >:+,$v/string/a
|> >Anyone with a better idea?
|> >
|> 
|> Well
|> 
|> :+,$v/string/p
|> 
|> doesnt print the error message...

Which, of course, is nice, but it also doesn't do the same thing, which isn't nice.

(I just tried it, and it scrolls the *entire* file except for the lines with the
/string/ in them by the screen and then says "[Hit return to continue]" -- I never
did like abusing keys -- and when I do *that* the cursor is placed at the last line
of the file.  That's not quite what I wanted, although it is amusing.)

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