On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:22:53PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> _MY_ favourite is this:
> 
>   :g/abc/normal 3WdWA def
> 
> (For exvery line that contains 'abc', delete the fourth word and
> append ' def' to the line.)

normal really is going to change the way i use vi. i can't believe i
hadn't heard of this earlier! finally "ed" becomes more useful than
a non confirming searching replace :) (reason that i haven't yet 
done a search replace implemention is because i actually use
/blah<cr>cwblub\en.n.n.n.n.n.n. i can't stand nonconfirming replace :))

Alex

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