Re: Operating on lines containing a pattern

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From: Aamod Sane
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 20:18

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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".

>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?
>(Or if not, has someone already written appropriate elisp code?)

>Any suggestions?

>--
>   Steve Baumgarten             | "New York... when civilization falls apart,
>   Davis Polk & Wardwell        |  remember, we were way ahead of you."
>   baumgart@esquire.dpw.com     | 
>   cmcl2!esquire!baumgart       |                           - David Letterman

USE VIP :-) :-)

Aamod
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