Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I want to know how to use vi to do search and replace. Is there
something easier to use than "help" to find out how?
I want to replace all instances of
"^[0-9][A-Z]" with
"^[0-9] [A-Z]".
You need to approach this sideways. A regular expression replacement
probably doesn't do what you need as you would have to capture the
matched characters, save them to a group, and then forward those groups
to the replacement expression.
It might be possible, but it would be annoying.
I know this doesn't help you, but in Emacs I would do this with a macro.
I would start a macro, search for the [0-9][A-Z], go to where the space
should be, insert the space, end the macro. Then I would execute the
macro until it failed.
I'm sure that vi/vim has a similar facility, but you'd have to get one
of the vi bigots to tell you how.
-a
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