RE: [UUG/MLUG] xemacs question

["Buford, Rick" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

for those of us less skilled in vi(but learning), could someone drop the lay
person translation on that vi command?

:%s/teh/the/ig<return>
(teh/the is fairly obvious, but what's the rest mean?)

Rick Buford
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Donnelly [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 2:54 PM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] xemacs question




On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Scott K. Laws wrote:

> 	If I have a file open in xemacs is there some way to do the
> equvilent of:
> 	perl -e 's%teh%the%ig;' -pi filenamehere

Yeah!  Just hop into your vi-emulation mode (I don't know how to do this)
and type the following: 

:%s/teh/the/ig<return>

> with out actually doing that and reverting teh buffer?

Was this an accident or a joke? ;)

--Mark