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From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
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Subject: tilde in vi regular expression
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Date: 19 Nov 88 05:40:51 GMT
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What does the tilde do in a vi regular expression?  For example, if my file
contains the lines
	xy
	x~y
and I do /x~y, then it finds the first line and not the second.  This is in
vi version 3.7 on a 4.3bsd Sun; it does it on a vax, too.