On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > > emacs: > > > > > > M-< ; go to beginning of file > > > C-x ( ; start recording kbd macro > > > C-s 129.168.1 RET ; search for 192.168.1 > > > M-b M-b M-b ; go back three words > > > M-d M-d M-d ; delete three words > > > 129.168.200 ; insert new string > > > C-x ) ; end kbd macro > > > C-x e ; repeat > > > C-x e ; repeat > > > C-x e ; repeat > > I could care less what editor anybody (not in my patroll ;-) > uses. I'm sending this for the benefit of the emacs user > who wrote the above. > > I beg to differ the emacs case: > > M-< ; go to beginning of file > M-% ; query-replace > 129.168.1 RET ; search for 192.168.1 > 129.168.200 RET ; replace with 129.168.200 > ! ; repeat for all occurrences > > This is fewer keystrokes than vi. If you don't want every > occurrence changed, then you press one key to perform or > another toskip each one as you see it.
Well, in vi you can do: 1G Go to the beginning :%s/129.168.1/129.168.200/ (if I remember it right) Still better... Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Unix admin If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.
