On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:18, Andy George wrote: > Lazy question! > > ...in VI the editor-of-the-gods... > > How do you do a word find/replace? I could google this, and imagine I'd > find an answer, but then subscription to this list becomes redundant, > and I might as well fly solo for as long as google has all the answers > to everything. In modern vim:- :1,$s/dot/dog/g
In old vi:- :1,$s/dot/s//dog/g Changes every occurrence of dot to dog. There are _lots_, i.e. too many, of vi/vim tutorials all over the net. For starters. http://rute.2038bug.com/node9.html.gz#SECTION00910000000000000000 There is also a very good built-in tutorial, press :h -- CS
