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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:44:44PM +1000, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Ken Cole cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> Actually:
> 
> % means the entire file and other commands can follow it, not just "s"
> 
> and from what I can find % and g do mean the same thing as would
> :1,419s if you knew there were 419 lines in the file.  The other two
> options are easier but for the sake of the discussion! :-)

True, although, Bill Vermillion taught me a couple neat ones, including:

Delete all lines:
:1,$d

So :1,419s would be more easily expressed 1,$s I think.

As well, if you were on a certain line and wanted only things from that
line forward to the end of the file replaced:

:.,$s

I'm used to using :.,$d when I do email replies (which is why my signature
is sometimes missing, if I'm in a hurry).  :)  Another handy one is :1,.d
which deletes all lines from the start to present line (inclusive).

Bill was a veritable vi dictionary.

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