On Sun, 21 May 2006 15:25:04 +1200 Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:18, Andy George wrote: > > ...in VI the editor-of-the-gods... > > > > How do you do a word find/replace? > > :%s/find/replace/g > > Will replace find with replace in the whole document (%) and be greedy (g) > i.e. replace more than one occurrence on a line. > > Of course you are correct; > > http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=vim+search+replace > > could easily tell you as well. > > hads > > -- > Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. > -- Oliver Elphick ... it'll replace every occurrence of the search string with the replaced string, which may be more than you want. For example, %s/Cant/Can/g will also convert Canterbury to Canerbury. If you want to check each one, use /search to find the first occurrence of the offending word, then cwreplace<ESC> to replace it with your new word. From that point on, n will find the next occurrence, and . will repeat the last action ( ie change word ). Hope this make sense. It's certainly more fun han the last 90 minutes getting wu-ftpd to accept incoming ftp without manually issuing the passive directive (: (If you need to know, then it's to add the line 'pasv-allow all 0.0.0.0/0' into /etc/wu-ftp/ftpallow). Steve
