Thanks. That's the incantation I needed.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > How does one limit the range of the
>  >  vim multiline substitution command?
>  >
>  >  i.e.
>  >  :%s/that/this/
>  >
>  >  will do a global substituion of this for that.
>  >
>  >  But say I want to limit the substitution to
>  >  say ten lines from the cursor. I tried
>  >  :10s/that/this/
>
>  if you are on say line 2 then:
>  2:11s/that/this/
>
>  should do it.
>
>  s.
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>  Sergio (Serge) Rey
>  Professor and Chair
>  Department of Geography
>  San Diego State University
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