On Tuesday 16 February 2010 07:00:43 pm Tim Chase wrote: > sc wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 February 2010 06:33:28 pm Ben Schmidt wrote: > >> :let g:a=0|%s/^\*/\=Inc(g:a).")" > > > > > > don't you need an ending forward slash for the substitute? > > Nope. You don't even need the 2nd slash if you want to > replace with nothing. The following 3 are the same: > > :%s/foo > :%s/foo/ > :%s/foo// > > The only time you need the 3rd delimiter is if you need to > pass flags to the :substitute command.
dang! and i thought i knew how to substitute! humbled yet again sc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php