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Re: Open vim editor to first occurrence of search term

Darryl — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:32:25 -0000

This is an awesome tip, too bad you can't make changes to a vi file using this method in a shell script then have it write those changes to the file, at least I can't figure out how to, can make the changes, but file is open in vi and I have to do a :wq manually

Re: Open vim editor to first occurrence of search term

flexinfo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:56:52 -0000

it just makes we wonder where these undocumented commands come from!! but its a nice one thanks makes sence really vi +/<search>. Then I would expect

vi +:g/<old>/s//<new>/g <filename>

To work and it does !!! thanks for the post and the previous comment that has opened a whole new range of possibilites:

~ Merry Christmas and Seasonal Greetings ~~

Re: Open vim editor to first occurrence of search term

Ryan Jordan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:04:19 -0000

I have
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
running on a
SunOS cidermill 5.9 Generic_118558-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
and it works the same.

I was able to search and search/replace.

Can't figure how to execute more than one command from the shell.
Anyone know how to execute multiple commands at a time in VI?

Re: Open vim editor to first occurrence of search term

nhmeanie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:13:58 -0000

Works fine on vi packaged w/Solaris 10

Re: Open vim editor to first occurrence of search term

oz — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:30:45 -0000

works beautifully!! :) Thank you!!!!
(vi on SCO unix )