On Sunday 01 June 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >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 And that worked just fine with my installed vim, thank you very much, poc. -- 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) At the foot of the mountain, thunder: The image of Providing Nourishment. Thus the superior man is careful of his words And temperate in eating and drinking. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
