[olug] Character Removal

Christopher Cashell topher-olug at zyp.org
Sat Oct 20 07:41:34 UTC 2007


On 10/20/07, stan at srcproductions.com <stan at srcproductions.com> wrote:
> Why doesn't '/first_character/,/second_character/,d' work? Every
> online help I can find suggest it should work.

The example you have here is line based, and specifically designed to
span lines.  It deletes everything from the line with the first regex
to the line with the second regex.  If both are on the same line, I
expect it will just delete that line.

-- 
Christopher



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