Annotation of 42BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L32.1a, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: #print
        !             2: Just as you can specify files with an abbreviation,
        !             3: it is also possible, in the 's' command, to
        !             4: use an abbreviation for the string to be used
        !             5: for substitution.  Unfortunately, the characters
        !             6: used to indicate an abbreviation are quite
        !             7: different, and you must learn them separately for the
        !             8: editor and the file-name interpreter. (Sorry about
        !             9: that, but that's the way the world is.)
        !            10: 
        !            11: The symbol for 'any character' is '.'.  Thus
        !            12:  s/a./bc/p
        !            13: looks for an 'a' followed by anything, and changes those
        !            14: characters into 'bc'.
        !            15: Thus the line
        !            16:    what now
        !            17: would become
        !            18:    whbc now
        !            19: after that command.
        !            20: What will the word "floating" become after
        !            21:  s/a./or/
        !            22: is executed?  Type "answer WORD" where WORD is the new version.
        !            23: #copyin
        !            24: #user
        !            25: #uncopyin
        !            26: #match flooring
        !            27: #log
        !            28: #next
        !            29: 32.1b  10

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