Tracy R Reed wrote:
That seems strange to me but maybe it is a matter of familiarity. Search
and replace in vi is just regex. :%s/foo/bar is almost like instinct to
me and pretty intuitive.
It's not the regex that's the problem. It's the auxiliary stuff. Does
that syntax work for *all* vi flavors?
I seem to recall that you forgot an extra slash as well as some silly
"global" flag or you only get 1 replacement per line. Or, is it a vim
extension that you don't need it?
I'm pretty sure we're talking:
:%s/foo/bar/g
So, I need to remember the "all lines" operator "%" which is specific to
vi and has no discoverability. I also need to remember the "g" global
flag which is specific to vi and has no discoverability.
The difference, for me, when I hit M-% to start the search and destroy
in emacs (which is the only reason I can actually remember the % in vi)
is that the system actually gives some prompting as to how to complete
the keystrokes to finish off the search-and-destroy.
-a
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