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Top Forums Programming Open Source What editor does everyone use? Post 302073145 by Corona688 on Wednesday 10th of May 2006 10:37:14 AM
Old 05-10-2006
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Originally Posted by tej.buch
hi...people seem to be gung ho about vi...what is so special about it? kindly inform me about its features that make it so special...
Well, if you're the kind of user that finds himself doing the same edit to 99 lines and wondering if he should write a perl script to do this for you, vi may be the editor for you... Instead of the limited search/search-replace functionality many editors have, vi supports full-blown regular expression search and search-replace. It's got many little features that let you do more work with less keystrokes but regexes is the "wow" one.
 

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AUSEARCH_ADD_REGEX(3)						  Linux Audit API					     AUSEARCH_ADD_REGEX(3)

NAME
ausearch_add_regex - use regular expression search rule SYNOPSIS
#include <auparse.h> int ausearch_add_regex(auparse_state_t *au, const char *expr); DESCRIPTION
ausearch_add_regex adds one search condition based on regular expressions to the audit search API. The search conditions can then be used to scan logs, files, or buffers for something of interest. You may not use this in combination with any other search expression. The regu- lar expression follows the posix regular expression conventions. The search results are at the record level and not the field. RETURN VALUE
Returns -1 if an error occurs; otherwise, 0 for success. SEE ALSO
ausearch_add_expression(3), ausearch_add_item(3), ausearch_clear(3), ausearch_next_event(3), regcomp(3). AUTHOR
Steve Grubb Red Hat Sept 2007 AUSEARCH_ADD_REGEX(3)
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