Re: [vile] searching and deleting

[hymie!]

Paul Fox writes:

>if it's not too many, the search string in vile has history,
>so you should be able to use up-arrow to get back to the 1321195617
>you want to search for again.

I did not know that.  Vile gets awesomer and awesomer all the time.

>does the file all look like you've quoted?  in that case instead
>of doing the second search, you could delete the next paragraph
>with
>    d}
>instead of your
>    d/^\[

Yes.  I don't use { } that often because I don't usually think in
terms of "paragraphs", but this is exactly what I needed.  Thank you.

>and finally, you know about the macro facility?

I don't.  But I'll check it out.

>hymie! wrote:
> > So what I'm trying to do is
> > (*) search for 1321195617  ( /1321195617 )
> > (*) go to the beginning of the line ( 0 )
> > (*) delete the section ( d/^\[ )
> > (*) find the next instance of 1321195617 ( n )
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the "n" command is now using ^\[ as the "last search to
> > repeat" rather than my actual search.
> > 
> > Is there a way that I can accomplish this, where "n" will repeat the last
> > search I **meant** to do, not the last search I happened to type?

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