Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS vi bug
Summary: this bug has been fixed
Message-ID: <436@mks.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 17:37:19 GMT
References: <3706@killer.UUCP> <5060020@hpccc.HP.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 14

In article <5060020@hpccc.HP.COM>, lufkin@hpccc.HP.COM (Paul Lufkin) writes:
] I'm having trouble manipulating strings containing the pipe ( "|" ) 
] with MKS regular expressions in vi/ex and sed.
] In other implementations of UN*X ex, the command    1,$s/||/:/g
] would change all occurences of "||" to ":".
] In MKS vi I get the error message 'Badly constructed regular expression'.

I tried this out on various versions of the editor here.  It shows up in
vi versions 2.2b and earlier, but is fixed from 2.2c on. 
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