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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: "vi" questions
Message-ID: <1273@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 10:44:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1273
Posted: Wed Jun 11 10:44:13 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 04:28:07 EDT
Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO
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Keywords: vi lines search

Hi!

I hope this group (net.text) is the right one for these questions; I'm
afraid they are rather simplistic compared to the more advanced topics
this group seems to concentrate upon (based on a review of recent
subject lines) but I don't know where else to ask. They could not be
answered by our most experienced local users of "vi", and I guess I
am the next-most-experienced vi user here, so I must turn to the net
for aid. ("Here" is an Army activity in St. Louis called "ALMSA".)

In the version of "vi" that comes with 4.2 BSD, what commands do I
use to search for the following text?

1) Two (or more) blank lines, one after the other.

2) A line longer than "n" characters.

(For the former, I've tried various combinations of ^$ and
Ctrl-V-Return, but none have worked. For the latter, I would suppose
that "/^(81 dots)$" would find lines over 80 characters long, but
that is hardly practical. I would expect there to be a more elegant
solution... :-)

Advice & help appreciated!

Regards,
Will Martin

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