This will ask you before replacing.
%s/oldword/replaceword/gc Brad Bendily wrote: > Now, the next couple things are the reasons I wanted to > and currently do use vi. It's the search/replace functions. > > :s/oldword/replacedword/g > > that will replace every instance of oldword with repacedword > on one line. if you add a % it will do it in the whole file: > > :%s/oldword/replacedword/g > > also, you can do this, add some text to the begining of every line > in a file: > > :%s/^/addtext/g > > or add text to the end of every line in a file: > > :%s/$/addtext/g > > You can read in a file: > :r filename > > > The search/replace stuff is what I use most often, while creating > scripts or editing files. > > Does anyone else have some cool feature of vi that they use that > they would like to add to the cool feature list?? > > > BB > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
