[GLLUG] vi selective search/replace

[Cory Spitz]

Yeah,

One keystroke for no and two keystrokes for yes is ok, but 1 < 2.
-Cory

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Charles Williams wrote:

> Yeh that's the system I use now. That works fine by me actually. Sometimes I
> wonder if there's a different undocumented way to selectively
> search/replace. Ok I can live with this.
> Thanks,
> Chuck Williams
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Cory Spitz [SMTP:spitzcor@cray.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:53 PM
> > To:	linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> > Subject:	Re: [GLLUG] vi selective search/replace
> >
> >
> > Well,
> >
> > If you want to do yes/no anyway, you can go to the old fashioned
> > method.
> >
> > To start, do a search for your target, say '/foo'. Then do a cw
> > command to replace the text with what you want, say 'cwbar' Then do a
> > 'n' command to find the next matching string. If you want to replace
> > it use the repeat command '.' to do the cw again. If you don't want to
> > replace just 'n' again to find the next matching string.
> >
> > Old school.
> >
> > -Cory
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Charles Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know a way to selectively search/replace in the vim editor?
> > >
> > > Like chuck is a lucky duck
> > >
> > > and I do global search/replace :%s/uck/zzz/
> > >
> > > but I want to choose Y or N for each replace maybe.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > chuck williams
> > > willcha@sme.org
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