Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jun 1 06:49:04 UTC 2006


Tim:
>> Linux:  I have some document with a word I'd like to replace.  I
>> *have* to delete the word, find and highlight its new replacement,
>> paste it into the document.

Todd Zullinger:
> For me, this would be done in vim with a search and replace.
> 
>     :%s/old/new/g

Sometimes you don't want to replace every instance, that's where copy
and paste would (otherwise) be more useful.

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