On Jan 25, 2008 2:40 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On Jan 25, 2008 1:58 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I know the vim command :%s///gc to replace throughout the file, with
> >> verification, including multiple occurrences on individual lines. But
> >> I'm not quite sure how to go about what I want.
> >>
> >> I want to issue the command such that any lines that are not ^$$
> >> (BOL$EOL) or ^%$ will get <br> appended *unless* the line already ends
> >> <br>$ (<br>EOL).
> >>
> > I think I understand that sometimes when you write "$" you mean the
> > dollar-sign character and other times you mean the symbolic
> > representation of End-Of-Line. But it is not completely clear.
> >
> > Perhaps the command you are looking for is "g!" global exclude.
> >
> > :%g!/pattern/action # perform action on all lines not
> > matching pattern
> > # action can include another
> > substitution match
> > # and other specifications
> > like g)lobal and c)onfirm
> > :%g!/pattern/s/pattern2/new thing/gc
>
> Wow another vim capability I never encountered.
>
> Now, I wonder if there is any way to get more occurrences of the adj/adv
> "global" into a vim command. This one has 3 does it not?
>
There are only two. The first g is "global within the specified
range", the second one is "global within the line". Vi/Ex have been
like this since forever. Actually I find this usage in 6th Edition
Unix ed(I) dated 1973. So blame it on Ken Thompson not Bill Joy.
Well, OK the "%" also states that the specified range is the whole file.
carl
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