[PLUG] To the VI Question

Matt Alexander m at netpro.to
Mon Jul 15 20:10:27 UTC 2002


OK, now I'm confused...  Even when I manually edit a file, create a list
of names and hit the enter key after each one, then try the substitute, it
doesn't work.  Any guesses as to what the problem could be?
Thanks,
~M
P.S.  The :%s only replaces the first occurance of what you're searching
for in each line.  To replace every occurance in a line, you would use:

:%s/old/new/g


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Sean Whitney wrote:

> Actually that worked for me
>
> :%s/\n/,/
>
> However more correct is
>
> % - apply to all lines in the file
> s - substitute





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