VI(1) vs. the world
Narayan Mohanram
narayan at twg-ap.UUCP
Tue Oct 7 02:35:01 AEST 1986
>
> What's more, vi completely lacks the following features I find
> indispensable:
>
> - multiple buffers and windows
> - query replace
> - keyboard macros
> - online help (":!man vi" doesn't count)
>
> Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
How about :g/old-string/s//new-string/gc for conditional replace. Or is
query replace something different.
PS. I am not arguing for either religions.
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