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From: Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] A simple trick for search/replace
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:45:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALAsyW1ea8tqt+EZkehL-JqZzaU1DCL_jZd-qOtfhEXtH3eOQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I sometimes do a (repeated) search/replace on a single character, for example

/`/
c/‘/

The above are applied using chording, with an Edit in the relevant
window; the search/replace is split into two separate commands so I
can check the instances.

But depending on the width of the character searched for and the light
conditions, I may find myself spending too much time trying to see
where in the window the highlighted character found by /`/ actually
is.

Appending -+ to the search will highlight the whole line instead; and
prepending x/`/ to the replacement command will then replace the
instance found on that line.

/`/-+
x/`/c/‘/

Mark.



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