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Article #3140Re: Query-replace on VI
From: Ken Johnson
Date: Mon, 09 May 1988 16:17
Date: Mon, 09 May 1988 16:17
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>>>> Does anyone know if VI has the query-replace function? >>>2) :g/foo/s//BAR/gc ### works in ex-mode >>Works, but it is not a query-replace; it is a global replace. >>As far as I can see there is no way to do a query-replace in `vi', >>but if that is so it's a serious omission. > >Ken, look at the command more carefully. That trailing "c" tells vi to >ask the user about each replacement. Sounds amazingly like how EMACS >handles "query-replace". You are all right -- it is a query replace. I didn't notice the little `c' at the end. I looked in both the Vi manual and the Ex manual, and then posted my own note. In future I will try to check my brain is engaged before operating my mouth. -- Ken -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH Phone 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email k.johnson@ed.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!ken From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI Message-ID: <408@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: 9 May 88 16:17:36 GMT References: <2587@geac.UUCP> <27909@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <86@skep2.ATT.COM> <393@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <52205@sun.uucp> Reply-To: ken@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Ken Johnson,E32 SB x212E) Followup-To: comp.editors Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Lines: 23 Keywords: sorry Summary: You are all right