Greetings; I'm in the process is adding comments so I can figure out what some disassembled code that is about 25 years old is doing. We've found a couple of buglets we would like to fix in the last few years & we're tired of working around them with a disk editor. However adding the missing comments is severely hampered by vim's apparent inability to do a global search and replace with the example shown in the ":help change" portion of the online help. That BTW isn't working either by the usual put the cursor on the help item and hitting ctrl- as the help says it should. The "ctrl-" is ignored. So what am I doing wrong when in the command mode, I type /s/L1BAE/isspace/&g, or :s/L1BAE/isspace/&g either syntax reports a spurious string error or similar squawk. And of course does nothing. I even tried the :promptrepl trick but it just puts the curser on the next line. Is my vim busted or suffering from bit rot? F8 install, uptodate yesterday. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
