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- From: gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre)
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- Subject: Strange behavior of vi
- Keywords: vi
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.215825.23884@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:58:25 GMT
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
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- Suppose I have a file containing the following line:
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- abc
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- I enter vi and I do:
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- :s/'*/===/g
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- and I get:
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- ===a===b===c===
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- Is it a bug?
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- If it is a feature, where is it documented?
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- Thanks.
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- Pierre Gaumond. gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA
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