From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T16:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 4:54:42 PM, Alexander wrote:

> 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 :))

If you want conforming replace, you might try adding the 'c' flag to
the search command :)  For example

  :%s/foo/bar/gc

That means you can use regexen as well, which the cw-n-. troika
doesn't give you.

Gavin