[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 113, Issue 2

[Hartmut W Sager]

> Note that the author's vi example to put quotes around lines:
> %s/\(^\|$\)/\"/g
> only works if ^ .ne. $, that is, the line is nonempty.
> (Sorry, mathematicians just love to point out things like this).

In other words, the author ignored "boundary conditions" - touché!  Or is
this more like a "degenerate case"?

Hartmut Sager


On 13 May 2014 14:08, Michael Doob <mdoob at ad.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

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>> "Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among
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> Note that the author's vi example to put quotes around lines:
>
> %s/\(^\|$\)/\"/g
>
> only works if ^ .ne. $, that is, the line is nonempty.
>
> (Sorry, mathematicians just love to point out things like this).
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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