Do a [CTL]+g to see how many lines you have. Then issue the following
command (using 139 lines as an example):
:1,139s/susank/susanr/gc
Should do the trick nicely.
Cheers,
Craige.
Andrew Langton wrote:
>
> Silly question regarding vi:
>
> I want to replace all occurences of susank with susanr in my aliases file,
> but the following syntax fails to find any matches:
>
> :s/susank/susanr/g
>
> Vim reports "Pattern not found: susank". According to the doco, this should
> work. /susank finds lots of matches.
>
> Anyone got any idea of what's going on?
>
> Andrew Langton.
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