On 9/14/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yakov Lerner wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 2.Can I delete after a pattern search? Sth like this:
>>
>> :/^<html\_.{-}<body>: /-3d
>>
>> and how can I repeat this globally?
>
> :g/^<html\_.{-}<body>: /.-3d
>
> Yakov
>
>
I get an E16: invalid range error
Yeah, this can happen if pattern is found
in line number < 4. (Then .-3 results in <=0 which is invalid
line number). Just insert 4 dummy empty lines
at beginning of file to avoid this.
Yakov
