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Let's start with the most common one as an
example. Suppose you've written a story and now you want to change one of the
character's names from Larry to Moe. It's as simple as
%s/Larry/Moe/g which says ``For the entire document, change all
occurrences of Larry to Moe.'' The percent sign is the range identifier that
indicates the search should take place over the entire document. You can't use
motion commands here, but you can use line numbers (which is not that useful for
authors), so :0,.s/hoo/ha/g will replace hoo with ha from line 0 to the present
line. You can also append c for ``confirm each replacement.''
Randall Wood
2009-08-04