From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme search backwards
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:37:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1xhMV1Vc4+HnBZYFCRyzdYTK9YTaHnn0fYF8gwBUr+Smj0-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ad5dfde114f33e7a3520275a573d2d8@proxima.alt.za>
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:01 PM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> Also there was a discussion on 9fans about it with other
>> suggestions/solutions.
>
> :-/RE<B3>
>
> is what I remember Russ recommending, It's not perfect, but it does help.
>
> Lucio.
>
>
Page 4 of A Tutorial for Sam Command Language, by Rob Pike, suggests
the following usage:
>>>
Just precede the pattern with a minus
sign, which reverses the direction of the search:
-/Emacs/
Similarly,
$-/Emacs/
finds the last occurrence in the file, so
0/Emacs/,$-/Emacs/
selects the text from the first to last Emacs, inclusive.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-02 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-02 6:08 Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-02 13:14 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2015-09-02 14:01 ` lucio
2015-09-02 14:37 ` Alexander Kapshuk [this message]
2015-09-02 15:01 ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-02 15:27 ` lucio
2015-09-03 9:16 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2015-09-03 9:38 ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-09-03 13:11 ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-03 13:34 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-09-03 14:14 ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-03 14:27 ` Stanley Lieber
2015-09-03 14:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-09-03 14:42 ` Rudolf Sykora
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