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Article #2573Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters
From: Trip Martin
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:04
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:04
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In <1992Nov20.005343.807@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> keithv@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Vetter) writes:
>In VI, is there an easy way to find all lines whose length
>is greater than 80 characters? I realize tabs are a problem but
>let's assume that there are no tabs.
If you just want to print them out, you can use:
:g/.\{81,\}/p
Unfortunately, the \{n,m\} construction doesn't work in search mode.
BTW, is there a way to easily re-execute the last ex command in vi?
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Trip Martin
night@acm.rpi.edu
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Trip Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!night From: night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) Subject: Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters Message-ID: <#nz10s#@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: hermes.acm.rpi.edu Reply-To: night@acm.rpi.edu References: <1992Nov20.005343.807@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:04:28 GMT Lines: 19