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Re: Linux and vim

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On 12/31/2010 02:24 PM, Gordon Lightfoot wrote:
>> As to your comment:
>> 
>>> Something this simple shouldn't require regular expressions.
>> 
>> Yes, maybe.  But then maybe not.  Do you want "assume" to change to
>> "asSume"?  Probably not.  To tell vim that you want to change only
>> the word "sum", but not things like "assume" of "summer", then you
>> need to modify your command to: :%s/\<sum\>/Sum/g
>> 
>> Rouben Rostamian
> 
> Thanks for the info. As for the regular expressions, I'd use them if 
> necessary. Thing is, this was just a small file in some programming
> language and I could see the whole file (< 20 lines probably), and I
> knew there weren't any other occurrences of "sum" in the other words.
> I just wanted to "pretty it up" some and change the s to a cap. Now,
> with your help, I can avoid such a situation in the future!

Why don't you just use a better editor that's not so darned hard to use?
Vim is ANCIENT and outdated anyway.

Todd

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