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In article <1039@desert.megatest.UUCP> sudweeks@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Sudweeks) writes:
>I seem to have found a bug in vi.
>  #### replace every occurance of pattern with pattern2 until end of file ####
>
>	:.,$g/pattern/s//pattern2/ 

I'm home and not near any documentation, but I think that your use
of 'g' here with ".,$" is improper.  Global HERE means EVERY LINE, so the
range probably gets ignored.  You should simply do

   :.,$ s/pattern/pattern2/g

	In this case the TRAILING 'g' says to make the substitution
more than once per line if necessary, but the specified range will be
honored.   I think your second illustration (which I've cleverly
deleted from this file before talking about it, so this may be
nonsense) is correct:  it will check ALL lines - not a range - for
PATTERN and if it finds it will make one substitution only in
such lines.  I'll not suggest you RTFM, because that is precisely
what's wrong with vi: reading most of its documentation is about like
having root canal done - rectally.  Good luck.
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