[ILUG] Vim search pattern question

[Feargal Reilly]

At 13:33 15/02/02, you wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:26:37PM +0000, Feargal Reilly wrote:
> > Sorry, that should be
> > d/}/0
>
>actually, d/^}/0, but that's just a niggle.  how cool are you?  thanks,
>i've wanted to do that as well.

If we're niggling, the ^ was superflous in the example. But that's a niggle 
at a niggle :)

>ok, so to give back something useful for that one...
>
>if you want to advance to the next " on a line, just type f".  note this
>only works on one line.  ; will repeat the search.  i find it useful,
>say, in /etc/named.conf where i might need to replace an ip address
>(1.2.3.4) with another one (5.6.7.8).  since named.conf usually has
>semicolons following i can usually do cf;5.6.7.8;<esc> and then /1.2.3.4
>and do .n.n.n. until i've replaced all the ones i want to replace.

or :%s/1\.2\.3\.4/5\.6\.7\.8/c and the y/n for each

>kevin
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