This is bugging me, because I'm *sure* I did something like this before,
only now I'm misremembering something.
I'll use html as an example...
If I wanted to delete text between certain tags (actually, *any*
start/end text), in multiple instances scattered throughout a huge file,
I was able to do something along the lines of
:g/<h1>/.,/<.h1>/s/.*/<h1><\.h1>/p
ie, globally recurse through the file, from where I find a "<h1>", from
here ('.') until I find the very next "<.h1>", and from that range
substitute alllll that with the empty tags "<h1><\/h1>".
Ie, I'd want to turn
<h1>stuff stuff
stuff stuff stuff
stuff stuff stuff
stuff stuff</h1>
to
<h1></h1>
and leave everything before/after untouched.
In reality, they're *not* matched tags, so there's no 'dit' operation or
anything, eg, it could be between "<script>" and the next
"<\/noscript>", between "{ab}" and the next "<hdend>", between "^sub "
and the next "^^I}", etc.
I remember doing this once before and it worked amazingly well, only now
I'm missing something, probably something basic.
Tnx.
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