Re: VIM Q again

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
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.

If all you want is to change every "L1BAE" in the file to a "isspace"

you can do it with sed(1), but sticking with vi(1):
:g/L1BAE/s//isspace/g

poc

And that worked just fine with my installed vim, thank you very much, poc.

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