[ILUG] vi tip...

[Niall O Broin]

On Friday 16 April 2004, feargal at helgrim.com (Feargal Reilly) wrote:

>records from smtp.example.com to smtp.example.net, you can do something like
>
>vim `grep -l smtp.example.com *`
>
>Then record the actions, and also record the :w and :n to move to the next
file. Then you just have 
>to type 1000 at a and enjoy.

I'm curious as to why you'd use a method which is slower and more error prone
than good old sed?


Niall