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- Subject: Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters
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- In article <1992Nov20.212000.14999@cs.wisc.edu> cheevers@wolf.cs.wisc.edu
- (John Cheevers) wrote:
-
- >The "&" key will execute the last substitute command. Strangely, it only
- >does it once - If your last command was
- >
- > :s/recieve/receive/g
- >
- >Then hitting "&" executes
- >
- > :s/recieve/receive (without the "g")
-
- The & command does lose the flags of the subsitute command that it repeats,
- but you can reissue the flags by using ex's & command instead of vi's:
-
- :&g
-
- or if the substitution worked out so well that you want to do it everywhere,
-
- :%&g
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