Re: [9fans] [acme] Edit command -- More than one argument?

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

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Edit {
s/^/\[/
s/\:\ /\]/
}


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Eduardo Alvarez <astrochelonian@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
>
> I'm in the process of learning acme via Russ Cox's p9p port. Recently, I
> found
> myself editing some text to use with markdown, and needed to make more
> than one
> modification to a list. I wanted to know if it's possible to give the Edit
> command more than one argument. For example, I found myself needing to
> replace
> colons with a close bracket (]), and inserting an open bracket at the
> beginning
> of the line. So I did this:
>
> Edit s/^/\[/
> Edit s/\:\ /\]/
>
> And I was hoping to combine these into a single line, so, for example:
>
> Edit s/^/\[/ s/\:\ /\]/
> (Not sure if escaping was necessary, but I was playing it safe)
>
> Doing exactly what I did above resulted in the error
>
> "Edit: newline expected (saw f)"
>
> So that's obviously not it. But I'm not sure if it's at all possible.
>
> Thank you in advance.
> --
> Eduardo Alvarez
>
> "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum"
>   -- Rincewind The Wizzard
>

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