On 01Jun2008 20:19, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | 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. The help is probably wrong then. | So what am I doing wrong when in the command mode, I type | /s/L1BAE/isspace/&g, or :s/L1BAE/isspace/&g What do you think each of the "&" and the "g" do in your line? Next. What does: :s/L1BAE/isspace/g do? That's for a single line. Every line: :%s/L1BAE/isspace/g It would help if you explained what you were trying to achieve instead of what you were trying to type. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
