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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers any idea to repeat a action in VI Post 43946 by linuxpenguin on Tuesday 25th of November 2003 04:51:28 PM
Old 11-25-2003
Hi,

vi is a very powerful tool. explore it

to do something over a number of lines you need to use

:<startline>,<endline> command

besides this vim provides recording.

however, i wud suggest you that try to use some external scripts like awk, sed etc to do such things.
 

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DtActionIcon(library call)												DtActionIcon(library call)

NAME
DtActionIcon -- get the icon information for an action SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Action.h> char *DtActionIcon( char *actionName); DESCRIPTION
The DtActionIcon function gets the icon information for an action. The actionName argument is the name of the action. DtActionIcon returns the name of the icon associated with an actionName action. If the action definition does not explicitly identify an icon name, this function returns the default action icon name, as described in dtactionfile(4) (``Action Selection''). The default action icon name can be customized using the actionIcon X resource. If there are multiple actionName actions, the string returned is the icon associated with the most general action. The most general action is the one with the lowest precedence, as described in dtactionfile(4) (``Action Selection''). RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, the DtActionIcon function returns a newly allocated copy of the icon name string ( ICON field) associated with the action; otherwise, it returns NULL. APPLICATION USAGE
The DtActionIcon function is useful for applications that provide a graphical interface to actions. The application should use XtFree(3) to free the icon name string returned by the DtActionIcon function. SEE ALSO
Dt/Action.h - DtAction(5), XtFree(3) dtactionfile(4), dtdtfile(4). DtActionIcon(library call)
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