On 9/14/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yakov Lerner wrote: > On 9/14/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yakov Lerner wrote: >> > On 9/14/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 2.Can I delete after a pattern search? Sth like this: >> >> >> >> :/^<html\_.{-}<body>: /-3d >> >> >> >> and how can I repeat this globally? >> > >> > :g/^<html\_.{-}<body>: /.-3d >> > >> > Yakov >> > >> > >> I get an E16: invalid range error > > Yeah, this can happen if pattern is found > in line number < 4. (Then .-3 results in <=0 which is invalid > line number). Just insert 4 dummy empty lines > at beginning of file to avoid this. > > Yakov > > This means that the -3d counts from the beginning of the pattern?? In my file The first occurrence of the patten expands from line 1 to line 82.
Yes, from the beginning of the pattern Yakov