Re: Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi

[C K Kashyap]

Save your .emacs file: C-x C-s

Mark Rosenthal
mbr@arlsoft.com

P.S. - Interesting side-note.  Did you know that the ed command:

    g/regular _expression_/operation

is where the name "grep" came from?  In ed and ex, the "g" means do a global search for the immediately following regular _expression_, and apply the operation to every matching line.  One such operation is "p" meaning "print".  Using "re" as shorthand for "regular _expression_", the ed command to print every line that matches a particular regular _expression_ is:

                g/re/p

Thank you very much Mark for the detailed explanation and the interesting side note :) I am inclined to the macro approach since the possibilities are endless.

Regards,

Kashyap