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From: hansm@cwi.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI
Message-ID: <323@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 17 May 88 14:08:52 GMT
References: <2587@geac.UUCP> <27909@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <86@skep2.ATT.COM> <393@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <52205@sun.uucp> <408@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <653@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <653@ubu.warwick.UUCP> nwho@diamond.UUCP (Nick (Alfie) Holloway) writes:
>What I would like to know is what other specifiers are there that can
>go on the end of a substitute command. I already know
>	g - global
>	c - query (check?)

	c - confirm
	p - print
	l - list
With %s/// both p and l print the last line affected, with g//s/// all
such lines are printed.

>And a final question, how do I copy a marked section. I can move using
>	:`a,`bm.
>(or whatever for addresses)
>but if I wish to copy do I have to yank then put?

The easiest to remember is
	:`a,`b copy .
The shortest valid abbreviation for copy is co, not c:
	:`a,`bco.
But you can save one more keystroke by using t:
	:`a,`bt.

Copy is one of those commands for which 0 is a valid line number,
indicating that you want the copy before line 1.

Hans Mulder	hansm@cwi.nl	mcvax!hansm