Re: VIM

[Charl Matthee <charl@infosat.net>]

On Tue Sep 18 2001 at 10:38:57AM +0200 'Craig' <craigsc@zdata.co.za> wrote:

> Need to do an extended find and replace with VIM, anyone
> know the syntax for me ? I have a really long named.conf
> file I need to modify ...

:%s/thing_to_find/thing_to_replace/gc

g: global
c: check with operator before substituting

If you need to find and replace over multiple lines I suggest you rather
use a little perl script.


Ciao

Charl
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