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From: chen-dahe@CS.YALE.EDU (Dahe Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: question about "vi"
Message-ID: <50519@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:04:29 GMT
References: <740@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
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Reply-To: chen-dahe@CS.YALE.EDU (Dahe Chen)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <740@bnlux0.bnl.gov> como@bnl-max (Andrew T. Como) writes:
>
>I have a question about vi.
>
>Here are five lines:
>	The cow jumped over the moon
>	The cow jumped over the moon
>	The cow jumped over the moon
>	The cow jumped over the moon
>	The cow jumped over the moon
>
>	How can I substitute /cow/dog only on lines 1 and 5
>
>I guess what I'm asking is if I
>search for cow -  /cow/
>now substitute - s/cow/dog/
>skip the next 3 lines  n  n  n
>...how can I re-issue the same substitution when I come to line 5
>
>
>Thanks in advance for the help
>

Two ways you can do it:

1. Move the curosr to the line you want to substitute and type &, or

2. do :#&<RETURN> where # is the line number.


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