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From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI
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Date: 3 May 88 17:10:57 GMT
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>>  Does anyone know if VI has the query-replace function?  

>2)	:g/foo/s//BAR/gc		### works in ex-mode

Works, but it is not a query-replace; it is a global replace.
As far as I can see there is no way to do a query-replace in `vi',
but if that is so it's a serious omission.
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