On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. If all you want is to change every "L1BAE" in the file to a "isspace" you can do it with sed(1), but sticking with vi(1): :g/L1BAE/s//isspace/g poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
