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From: hansm@cwi.nl (Hans Mulder)
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Subject: Re: tilde in vi regular expression
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Date: 22 Nov 88 18:17:14 GMT
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In article <17243@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>What does the tilde do in a vi regular expression?  For example, if my file
>contains the lines

When you have done :s/pattern/replacement/, the tilde matches the replacement.

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