vi and substitution

[Chrissirhc]

I'm looking at substitution in vi. (More specifically gvim)

Two questions:

1) Can you use the pipe function?

e.g. %s/stert/start | %s/ende/end

I get the error "Trailing characters" when trying this.


2) How do you use substitute in the "/" character

e.g. %s/the/</the>

I get the error &quot;Trailing characters&quot; when trying this also.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[dickiebird]

AFAIK, you can't use the pipe character in %s in vi
The / needs to be 'escaped' - that is, a backslash needs to be put in front of it e.g. %s/the/<\/the>

HTH Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[kasparov]

Alternatively, you don't have to use / as the separator in substitution commands, eg:

%s:the:</the>:

would work too.

Chris

 

[Chrissirhc]

Thanks very much.

If you can't use a pipe character. Is there anyway of doing more than one substitute in one line?

Thanks

Chris

 

[bigoldbulldog]

If your using vi why care so much to do more than one substitution at a time?

If you have to then write a macro (a)

map a :%s/stert/start/g^M:%s/ende/end/g^M

or use the commands available to the shell (b) such as

%!sed 's/stert/start/g;s/ende/end/g'

The % is your global address [address[,address] and ^M is the key combination of control-V and control-M. Cheers,
ND

bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com

 

[Chrissirhc]

Cheers,

I just wanted to know if it was possible in vi.

Thanks,

Chris