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In article <BAUMGART.91May3100021@esquire.esquire.dpw.com>, baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
>In "vi" (boo! hiss!), you can do something like this:
>
>	:g/pattern/d
>
>to delete all the lines in a file that contain the pattern "pattern".

There's delete-matching-lines for that.

>Or this:
>
>	:g/pattern/s/p1/p2/
>
>to substitute p2 for p1 in all lines containing the pattern "pattern".
>
>Is there some way to do this in Emacs, short of writing elisp code?

C-x ( C-s pattern ESC C-e C-@ C-a M-x narrow-to-region RET M-x 
replace-string p1 RET p2 RET M-x widen C-x ) to define a macro to do
the replacement once.

Followed by C-u 0 C-x e to repeat the macro for the rest of the file.

I know it's not pretty, but it's completely general: you can do
whatever you want to the matching lines, not just substitutions.

>Any suggestions?

Then again, there's always vi-mode, or vip-mode, or...

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