[Linux-disciples] vim: selecting lines matching a pattern

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:22:22PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I always forget sed syntax, but there is a way to specify a range based on
> regexps, and then specify an operation on that range, which I believe could
> include a 'join' type operation. I'd have to muck around in the sed manpage
> for a while to get the syntax right, though.

I've basically always thought that sed and vim had identical
search-and-replace syntax, such that if it were possible in
vim it would be possible in sed.

There's probably a way to do it in Perl as well. I mean, I
could fake something involving the '..' operator ...

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