On 11:01 14 Jan 2003, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 13:18, Samuel Flory wrote:
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > >or try:
| > >:g/abdfggg/s//opsmsdd/g from vi/vim
| >
| > That's really the hard way.
| > :%s/abdfggg/opsmsdd/g works just as well and makes more sense.
|
| This is the vi syntax I am familier with. What is the first example
| doing?
It's a lesser known syntax, but valid all the way back to e and ed.
It separates selection from operation. It says, "globally, for all lines
containing abdfggg, substitute that (// being 'that') with opsmsdd".
You can do more flexible things, like:
g/foo/ .-2,.+2m0
or
g/bah/ s/this/that/g
and so forth.
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