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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI
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Date: 4 May 88 19:47:55 GMT
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In article <393@aiva.ed.ac.uk> ken@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Ken Johnson,E32 SB x212E) writes:
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>>>  Does anyone know if VI has the query-replace function?  

Try this:

use "/from" to find your query
use ":s/from/to/" to replace it
then repeatedly use "/" to jump the the next instance of the from pattern, and 
":s" to change it.

-- Scott Schwartz     schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu    schwartz@psuvaxg.bitnet