[Wylug-discuss] Vi question

[Philip Wyett]

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:28, Chris Davies wrote:
> On Monday, June 30, 2003 11:19 AM, David.ALLEN at eur.crowncork.com wrote:
> > Here is a question for all you Vi experts; How do you do a global
> > find and replace?
>
> Shouldn't this be on the HELP list?
> 	:%s/old/new/g
>

Hi,

If you wish to be a little careful, you can use confirmation of each
change by adding 'c' e.g.

:%s/old/new/gc

This will search for 'old' and stop highlighting or underlining each
occurrence of 'old' with carets '^'. To make the change hit the 'y' or
to not and move onto the next 'n' etc. until your done.

Regards

Phil

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