Re: vi

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@sjis.com>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> I beg to differ the emacs case:
> 
> M-<                     ; go to beginning of file
> M-%			; query-replace
> 129.168.1 RET     	; search for 192.168.1
> 129.168.200 RET		; replace with 129.168.200
> !			; repeat for all occurrences
> 
> This is fewer keystrokes than vi. 

Err...  I know I shouldn't get into this, but.....

:1					; go to top of file
:g/129.168.1/s//129.168.200/g<ret>	; global replace
<esc>:wq

No finger breaking key combo's either. :-)

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