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From: atkins@opus.UUCP (Brian Atkins)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: searching from a buffer in VI
Message-ID: <711@opus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 18:30:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 18:30:16 1984
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Can anyone tell me how to take a string, yank it into a buffer,
then search for that string by calling that buffer.

I know how to yank a command into a buffer then run that
command via the "@<buf>", but just searching??



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