Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:43:33 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Richard Schuder" <rschuder@coolwave.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Replacing text with forward slash in vi Message-ID: <E148iaj-0003Qv-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> Here's a tough one! > > I want to replace the two dots ``..'' with a URL address like > ``http://website.address.com'' in the following text: > > "../path/to/website/index.html" > > The vi command would be... > > :s/\../http://website.address.com > > but, the two forward slashes following "http:" confuse vi's replace command. > > Any ideas? > > use another delimiter, and eascape both "."s try ... :s;\.\.;http://website.address.com; Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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