Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:14:52 -0500 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Brian Beattie' <beattie@beattie-home.net>, Richard Schuder <rschuder@coolwave.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Replacing text with forward slash in vi Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D6A0@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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Well, when I have a MS client ftp a long filename with spaces interspersed in the name, I use ', 2 over from the "l" key, for those that may confuse it with the backwards `. Maybe that will handle the slashes also. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Beattie [mailto:beattie@beattie-home.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:40 PM To: Richard Schuder Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing text with forward slash in vi On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Richard Schuder wrote: > Here's a tough one! > > I want to replace the two dots ``..'' with a URL address like > ``http://website.address.com'' in the following text: > > "../path/to/website/index.html" > > The vi command would be... > > :s/\../http://website.address.com s/\.\./http:\/\/website.address.com/ > > but, the two forward slashes following "http:" confuse vi's replace command. Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie@beattie-home.net | standards based software. Users of Microsoft | products or other substandard software should www.beattie-home.net | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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