It's just a string that does regex (regular expression) matching. Regex
predates perl by years -- goes back at least to sed, I think.
At 05:49 PM 1/18/00 -0800, Tim K. wrote:
>I'm currently trying to teach myself both Linux & Perl, so I could be
>*entirely* wrong, but that string looks VERY perl-like to me...
>
>So is vim something like vi "cross-pollinated" with Perl, or...? What's the
>relationship there?
>> %s/ /<tab>/g
>>
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