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From: narayan@twg-ap.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VI(1) vs. the world
Message-ID: <113@twg-ap.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 12:35:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 12:35:01 1986
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Keywords: religion
Summary: query replace in vi

> 
> What's more, vi completely lacks the following features I find
> indispensable:
> 
>     -	multiple buffers and windows
>     -	query replace
>     -	keyboard macros
>     -	online help (":!man vi" doesn't count)
> 
> Larry Campbell                             The Boston Software Works, Inc.

How about :g/old-string/s//new-string/gc for conditional replace. Or is
query replace something different.

PS. I am not arguing for either religions.
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Narayan Mohanram

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