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Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters

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From: John Cheevers
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:20
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In article <#nz10s#@rpi.edu> night@acm.rpi.edu writes:
>
>BTW, is there a way to easily re-execute the last ex command in vi?
>-- 
>Trip Martin
>night@acm.rpi.edu

The "&" key will execute the last substitute command.  Strangely, it only 
does it once - If your last command was

	:s/recieve/receive/g

Then hitting "&" executes

	:s/recieve/receive	(without the "g")

John Cheevers
cheevers@cs.wisc.edu
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