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Re: help in vi

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Saravanan Subbiah wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how do I delete a set of lines which matches some regular expression in
> vi ???
> 
> :%d/reg.expression/
> 
> doesn't seem to work !
> 
Use %s (substitute) instead of %d

Eg.
:%s/sub *Func1//g

U can use gc instead of just g to prompt b4 substitute.

Sreeji