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Article #26208Re: MKS vi bug
From: Gerry Wheeler
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 17:37
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 17:37
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In article <5060020@hpccc.HP.COM>, lufkin@hpccc.HP.COM (Paul Lufkin) writes:
] I'm having trouble manipulating strings containing the pipe ( "|" )
] with MKS regular expressions in vi/ex and sed.
] In other implementations of UN*X ex, the command 1,$s/||/:/g
] would change all occurences of "||" to ":".
] In MKS vi I get the error message 'Badly constructed regular expression'.
I tried this out on various versions of the editor here. It shows up in
vi versions 2.2b and earlier, but is fixed from 2.2c on.
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Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MKS vi bug Summary: this bug has been fixed Message-ID: <436@mks.UUCP> Date: 6 Apr 88 17:37:19 GMT References: <3706@killer.UUCP> <5060020@hpccc.HP.COM> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 14