Re: [TCLUG:9061] regex

[Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>]

On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Sandipan Panigrahi wrote:

> s/[^ ][^ ]*/'&'/g

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

Here's another question. I'm a bit confused by the /g aspect of regex
replacing in vi. Supposedly, it stands for "global" right? But it only
does the replace until the end of the line. Then if I do %&g, it will,
according to "Unix in a Nutshell", "Repeat the last change globally",
which DOES replace all over the file. Is this just a vi quirk, or what?

Luke