From: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
To: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:32:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdT1gpGkwaiHuSkjbWwJLMTvjxkJ6t7bQKmBnKSmw4toJ0pRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E29DD40.80909@arlsoft.com>
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>
> Save your .emacs file: C-x C-s
>
> Mark Rosenthal
> mbr@arlsoft.com
>
> P.S. - Interesting side-note. Did you know that the ed command:
>
> g/regular expression/operation
>
> is where the name "grep" came from? In ed and ex, the "g" means do a
> global search for the immediately following regular expression, and apply
> the operation to every matching line. One such operation is "p" meaning
> "print". Using "re" as shorthand for "regular expression", the ed command
> to print every line that matches a particular regular expression is:
>
> g/re/p
>
>
>
Thank you very much Mark for the detailed explanation and the interesting
side note :) I am inclined to the macro approach since the possibilities are
endless.
Regards,
Kashyap
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-23 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-22 8:42 Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 9:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-22 9:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-22 10:02 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:12 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-22 10:41 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-07-22 10:44 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:45 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-22 10:46 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-22 19:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-22 20:27 ` MBR
2011-07-22 20:37 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-22 20:51 ` MBR
2011-07-23 7:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-15 0:27 ` Ken Goldman
2011-07-23 3:02 ` C K Kashyap [this message]
2011-07-23 8:44 ` suvayu ali
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