RE: [UUG/MLUG] xemacs question

[David Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

for all the times that occurs in a file:

:1,$s/teh/the/ig

Dave Lloyd

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Buford, Rick wrote:

> 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
>