Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!encore!multimax!boykin From: boykin@multimax.Encore.COM (Joe Boykin) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: tilde in vi regular expression Message-ID: <4316@encore.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 20:14:05 GMT References: <17243@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@encore.UUCP Reply-To: boykin@multimax.UUCP (Joe Boykin) Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA Lines: 26 In article <17243@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes: >What does the tilde do in a vi regular expression? For example, if my file >contains the lines > xy > x~y >and I do /x~y, then it finds the first line and not the second. This is in >vi version 3.7 on a 4.3bsd Sun; it does it on a vax, too. The tilde specifies the replacement text from the most recent substitute command. For example: :s/foo/bar/ /~/ would search for "bar". ---- Joe Boykin Encore Computer Corp Chairman, IEEE Computer Societies Technical Committee on Operating Systems UUCP: encore!boykin ARPA: boykin@encore.com