VIM Q again
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jun 2 00:19:53 UTC 2008
Greetings;
I'm in the process is adding comments so I can figure out what some disassembled
code that is about 25 years old is doing. We've found a couple of buglets we
would like to fix in the last few years & we're tired of working around them
with a disk editor.
However adding the missing comments is severely hampered by vim's apparent
inability to do a global search and replace with the example shown in
the ":help change" portion of the online help. That BTW isn't working either
by the usual put the cursor on the help item and hitting ctrl- as the help says
it should. The "ctrl-" is ignored.
So what am I doing wrong when in the command mode, I type
/s/L1BAE/isspace/&g, or :s/L1BAE/isspace/&g
either syntax reports a spurious string error or similar squawk. And of course
does nothing. I even tried the :promptrepl trick but it just puts the curser
on the next line.
Is my vim busted or suffering from bit rot? F8 install, uptodate yesterday.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
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