On 9/13/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yakov Lerner wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yakov Lerner wrote:
>> > On 9/13/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to delete several lines from the beginning of file till
>> the
>> >> appearance of a specific pattern, without deleting the pattern. I
>> have
>> >> used the following command:
>> >>
>> >> :1,/Citations: /d/e-10
>> >>
>> >> but the offset doesn't work.
>> >
>> > Try this:
>> >
>> > :1,/Citations: /-1d
>> >
>> > Caution: This works except in the case when pattern is found in the
>> > 1st line.
>> >
>> > Yakov
>> >
>> >
>> That's work fine, thanks!
>>
>> Can I ask another question? How can someone substitute or delete a block
>> of text which expands to more than one line? E.g. the text:
>>
>> Morning bgfn nbgfn............................more text..
>> ........more text...............
>> ....................... end of text.
>>
>> Can I use a sth like this?
>>
>> s/Morning,text/anothertext
>
> try
> :s/Morning\_.*text/anothertext/
> or
> :s/Morning\(\n\|.\)*text/anothertext/
>
> :help \_
> Yakov
>
>
Sorry, that works but I forgot to mention that I have many occurrences
of /text/ (last word in block) and I want to substitute to the first
occurrence only.
Then you change * in the pattern for \{-}
Yakov
