[wellylug] vi / ex question

[jumbophut]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:38:58 +1300 (NZDT), jfouhy wrote:
> 
> Which leads me to believe that it's basically incorrect syntax and you take your
> chances as to what it does :-)
> 

I don't see the same behaviour with gvim on Windows as you do on Debian.  

But I agree that the command as I wrote it is basically useless...

... unless your goal is to highlight all instances of a match and
delete the first line in the file, while running Vim 6.2 on Windows.
:-)

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')