On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:33:46PM -0800, Bao Niu wrote:
> Thank you John, but your advice makes me nervous. Does this dot ('.') rule
> also apply to vimgrep? Or it's only for substitution?
> This must be something that only pros use?Don't let it intimidate you! It's quite simple, really. In fact, using a character other than the '/' to delimit the search and replace parameters to the substitute command is not something unique to Vim. Perl and sed follow this convention as well. For instance: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-2 -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://linuxcounter.net -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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