[Novalug] vi question

[Matt Thompson]

The heavens stretched forth and Jon Sime decreed the following on or 
about 12/04/2007 02:13 PM:
> Charles M Howe wrote:
>> How do I change all instances up to the end of a file of a single letter
>> with another letter?
> 
> This is for vim, but I think the syntax is the same for other vi clones,
> too. If you only want to change occurrences from your current position
> in the file to the end of the file:
> 
>     :,$s/<orig>/<new>/g

I do believe this is ed syntax, which influenced grep, sed, awk, perl... 
  Remember ladies and gents, "Ed is the standard text editor":

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

And then there is the inevitable Bill Joy quote (scroll down a bit):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

Matt
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