On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:38, Steve Holdoway wrote: > ... 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 ).
True. You could also use the c modifier to confirm every match. hads -- You cannot use your friends and have them too.