Simply place the cursor on the line that needs multiple replacements and...
:s/images/pictures/g
notice, there's no % ... that limites it to the current line only.
:s/son.gif/daughter.gif/g
:s/original/replace/g
Hope this helps!
; ) .randy
On 8/19/05, Matt Alexander <
lowbassman@gmail.com> wrote:
> MCR wrote:
>
> >This is along the line of a couple of posts today, so
> >I thought I would finally ask. When I have a document
> >open in vi, sometimes I would like to do a change and
> >have it apply to only one line, I know how to do it
> >globally, but I can not seem to find out how to do it
> >for just the one line. Example:
> >For global: say I have a html document and my image
> >directory is named "images". I decide to change the
> >name of the directory to pictures, I know to do this
> >for the whole document I do:
> >:%s/images/pictures/g
> >
> >
> >
>
> Instead of %s, use just the line number you want to edit. So, to change
> only line 34...
>
> :34s/images/pictures/g
>
>
>
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