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From: wsmith@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI
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Date: 5 May 88 02:04:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!wsmith    May  4 21:04:00 1988


>/* Written 12:10 pm  May  3, 1988 by ken@aiva.ed.ac.ukBARn uiucdcsm:comp.editors */
>
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>>>  Does anyone knowBARf VI has the query-replace function?  
>
>>2)	:g/foo/s//BAR/gc		### worksBARn ex-mode
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>Works, butBARtBARs not a query-replace;BARtBARs a global replace.
>As far as I can see thereBARs no way to do a query-replaceBARn `vi',
>butBARf thatBARs soBARt's a serious omission.
>-- 

The posting that I have munged is false.  The c flag at the end of the
command makes it be a query replace.  It make the replacement, I answered
'y RETURN' to the prompts.  
The command I used was :g/ i/s//BAR/gc

Bill Smith	wsmith@a.cs.uiuc.edu	ihnp4!uiucdcs!wsmith