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From dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
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Subject: Origin of % in replacement pattern in vi
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Date: 24 Jun 92 19:57:18 GMT
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Article-I.D.: tc.1992Jun24.195718.16732
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I've been using vi for a long time, but it's been a while
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since I've tried the command
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:s/foo/%/
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Until now this would replace the string foo with the character '%',
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but now it appears that % does something similar to the metacharacter ~
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in the replacement part of a substitute command.
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Earlier vi's did not do this, and the earlier manuals did not mention
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this (Although the LATEST manual from Sun that we have (SunOS Release 4.1.2)
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has added a sentence about it.
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Would someone please explain why vi was changed?
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(I have seen mentions about a ucb vs. sysV vi, is this one of the new
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features of sysV?)
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David Dyck dcd@tc.fluke.COM
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