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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:38:19 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question
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edit applies to the current seoection, so if you want to do a global sear=
ch and replace you need

	Edit ,s:foo:bar:g

you don't need SREs for something like this.

- erik
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On Sun Oct 22 01:20:27 EDT 2006, chesky@plan9.jp wrote:
> What are the steps to use the Edit command?  I=E2=80=99ve been trying s=
omething really simple=E2=80=94changing every occurence of =E2=80=98foo=E2=
=80=99 to =E2=80=98bar=E2=80=99=E2=80=94 and can=E2=80=99t seem to make i=
t work.  I have some variation of
> 	Edit s/foo/bar/
> in the window=E2=80=99s tag, middle-select the whole thing, and get an =
error message saying =E2=80=9CEdit: no substitution=E2=80=9D.  And this i=
s after reading the manuals and /sys/doc/ papers on both acme and sam; I =
just don=E2=80=99t get it. =E2=98=B9