On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 08:37:36PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 08:26:25PM -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> Sean> per Brian's recommendation, i decided to dig up my vi cheatsheet and
> Sean> give more attention to get hooked up with this vi-addiction. how do i do
> Sean> a find for a string in vi?
>
> The easiest way is with a slash. Why in command mode hit "/"
> You probably won't see anything until you start typing.
> another way is with
> :%s/searchstring/
I was wrong with the
:%s/searchstring/
This actual stands for search and replace. It will actually
replace "searchstring" with nothing.
I should test these things before flying off and posting. :)
brian
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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