Re: [Lug-Nuts] vi find

From: Brian E. Lavender (brian@brie.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 20:37:36 PDT


On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 08:26:25PM -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
Sean> per Brian's recommendation, i decided to dig up my vi cheatsheet and
Sean> give more attention to get hooked up with this vi-addiction. how do i do
Sean> a find for a string in vi?

The easiest way is with a slash. Why in command mode hit "/"
You probably won't see anything until you start typing.
another way is with
:%s/searchstring/

This will find the first occurance. The % means search the
entire document.

You might want to try emacs too.

Here's a couple books I recommend.
Unix Companion by Harley Hahn
Learning vi by Linda Lamb (O'Reilly)

brian

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