Turning the into an

[Gerben 'P' Vos]

0004068145 at mcimail.com (Ari Kahan) writes:
>joshi at motcid.UUCP (Abhay B. Joshi) writes:

>> I have a simple text-file containing the following text (3 lines):
>>
>>      The goal:
>>      All I am trying to do is replace the 'the's by 'an's.
>>      That's all.

>:g/\<the\>/s//an/g

If that's all, why not do it simpler:

:%s/\<the\>/an/g

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