in command line mode i can run a search and replace which extracts part of a pattern and uses it in the output.
is there any way to do this in normal mode? here is an example: command line search and replace: :s/\[\([0-9]*\)\]/<a href="#n\1"><\/a>[\1]/ of course, in normal mode i can search for /\[[0-9]*\] repeatedly with "N", and examine each stop to see if the change should be done, but how do i suck out the guts of the target so as to stick them into the replacement? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
