hi, It was actually a \t and not a space. thanks!
Jerin On 6/19/06, Andrei A. Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:20:10PM +0530, Jerin Joy wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same version of vim installed on two different machines. > The file I want to edit contains > input signala; > input signalb; > > I wanted to have just signala, signalb on a line so that the file looks > like: > > signala > signalb > > I used the regexp replace: > :%s/input[\ ]\+/ /g > > It works on one of the systems but the other one gives me a Pattern > not found error. Does anyone know whats causing this difference? Maybe the 'magic' option is set to something different. Try :he pattern and :he 'magic' -- Minds, like parachutes, function best when open
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