Re: how to %g/notice/d

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

nick wrote:
 > o you can write a macro (as kgold suggested) that remembers the
 > keystrokes you type while you are doing *one* deletion, go to the top
 > of the buffer and then invoke the macro N times (with a prefix
 > argument of course), where N is some number greater or equal to the
 > number of occurrences of the word ``notice'' in your file.

Don't guess what N is, just use 0.  (I've always thought 0 was a poor
choice for `C-x e's special prefix arg.  0 should mean execute 0 times; a
negative number should mean execute until error.)

...

 > In my case, I have bound the mark-whole-buffer function to a function
 > key, since I use it very often, so the resulting operation is shorter.
 > In my .emacs, I have
 >
 > (define-key global-map [f9] 'mark-whole-buffer)

mark-whole-buffer is bound by default to `C-x h'.

...

 > C-u M-| sed 'notice/d' RET

That should be: C-u M-| sed '/notice/d' RET

-- 
Kevin Rodgers