On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:24:44PM +0000, Daniel Crookston wrote:
> When :%s///ing in vi... do <'s or >'s need to be \ed, and how do you (*.)?

\<,\> is the beginning and end of word, respectively.  So, no, you don't
need to escape angle brackets.

To do (*.) you would need to do \(\*\.\) but I suspect you really wanted
to do (.*), which would be \(.\*\)

Alan

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