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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with Manx C
Message-ID: <255@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 18:52:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 18:52:22 1986
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In article <557@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) writes:
>In article <805@princeton.UUCP> chiu@princeton.UUCP (Kenneth Chiu) writes:
>>
>>1.  The z editor doesn't seem to recognize :s/pat/repl/ commands.  This is
>>    quite a disappointment, since I use global substitutions sometimes.
>
>You're right - it doesn't have a replace command (I use MicroEmacs).

I'm used to the standard unix /bin/ed and am just beginning to
learn z (and vi too for that matter).  I think you can do the equivalent
of g/pat/s/pat/repl/ via a macro.

I recently found that I had received a bunch of files terminated with
CR LF and I wanted to get rid of the CR's.  So in z I built a macro
(the command for that is ":>").  The macro I built was "$x-$" which
would go to the end of the line, delete one character, go up one
line and go to the end of the line (I think it's already at the end
of the line, but just to be sure ...).  After building the macro it
is executed once.  I was on the last line at the time.  So now I did
the rest of the lines with "9999v" which repeats the macro up to 9999
times.

Wish I had my Manx book with me, but I think you can build a
macro which will find a string, then delete that string, and then
insert your replacement string.  Then you can repeat execution of the
macro n times with the v command.

Marnix
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