> while you can specify that a substitution take place on many lines > (1,3s/// for lines 1-3, .,$s/// for lines "here" to end of file, or > %s/// for lines "all") VI is based on EX which is a line editor.
yah, hence my question :) > there may be some advanced voodoo mumbo-jumbo that will allow VIM (or > ELVIS, another enhanced VI) to munge the double \n\n the way you want it > to... that's what i wanted to know. i didn't think so but vim has lots of fancy mumbo jumbo in it :) > try "man wml" for example ("apt-get install wml" if you don't have > it)... cool, i'll check it out, thanks. adam.