[Cialug] vi substituting

[Nathan Stien]

On Jan 26, 2008 10:52 AM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
> I think what happened is that it replaced it on the first line but then
> says "Pattern not found" because there are no more occurrences on that
> line. You need to use :%s/thisthis From/From/g The % symbol tells it to
> perform the replace on all lines.

Oh yeah.  Eric is definitely right.  When I read Todd's original
email, my brain filled in the "%" to his command line before it even
got to my consciousness.  I have never had occasion to do a :s without
the "%".