Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Joel chesky Salomon]

> commands in 'Edit' apply to selected text (dot) just like Look or |

Also, the command I was looking for was
	x/foo/c/bar
— not so obvious to a beginner.  Thanks fo setting me straight.

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> Also, the command I was looking for was
> 	x/foo/c/bar
> — not so obvious to a beginner.  Thanks fo setting me straight.

it should be noted somewhere that sam structured regexp applies
to Edit.

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Joel Salomon]

> it should be noted somewhere that sam structured regexp applies
> to Edit.

It is so noted in acme(1); it just took me a while reading sam(1) to
figure out the proper command syntax.

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Russ Cox]

Commands apply to the current selection in both sam and acme.
The use of , as an address meaning "the entire file" is also common
to both sam and acme.  See the sections starting with "Addresses"
in sam(1).

Russ

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Joel Salomon]

> edit applies to the current seoection, so if you want to do a global search and replace you need
> 
> 	Edit ,s:foo:bar:g

I’d like to look this up; is this a sam feature or an acme Edit one?

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[erik quanstrom]

edit applies to the current seoection, so if you want to do a global search 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’ve been trying something really simple—changing every occurence of ‘foo’ to ‘bar’— and can’t seem to make it work.  I have some variation of
> 	Edit s/foo/bar/
> in the window’s tag, middle-select the whole thing, and get an error message saying “Edit: no substitution”.  And this is after reading the manuals and /sys/doc/ papers on both acme and sam; I just don’t get it. ☹

Re: [9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[andrey mirtchovski]

commands in 'Edit' apply to selected text (dot) just like Look or |

[9fans] Really basic acme Edit question

[Joel chesky Salomon]

What are the steps to use the Edit command?  I’ve been trying something really simple—changing every occurence of ‘foo’ to ‘bar’— and can’t seem to make it work.  I have some variation of
	Edit s/foo/bar/
in the window’s tag, middle-select the whole thing, and get an error message saying “Edit: no substitution”.  And this is after reading the manuals and /sys/doc/ papers on both acme and sam; I just don’t get it. ☹

--Joel