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Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Dec 16 17:54:32 PST 2009


You'll never BELIEVE what Ken Cole said here...:
> No :g means global in the file, every line
> 
> this command is:
> 
> :g/target/s/string1/string2/
> 
> globally find target and substitute for string1 string2
> 
> This will only do the substitute one per line unless there is a
> trailing g for global in the line.

Huh.  I've been using %s for that, rather than g.  The leading command, not
the "globally within line" suffix.

It -seems- that they're semantically the same, although I'd like to know if
I'm right in that assessment.  I'll ask here, since I believe the person
that taught me %s is deceased. :(

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