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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Substitue 'Special Characters' in VI Post 302328596 by ScKaSx on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 05:35:53 PM
Old 06-24-2009
Thanks for the reply scottn,

however what I want to replace is "\begin{}" the thing that is giving me trouble is the "\" backslash which is used for many other things in vi.

Actually the :g//d worked! but it deletes the whole line that contains the string. I just want to replace "\begin{}" with "%".

These characters are killing me!

Cheers,
ScKaSx
 

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