Re: lines matching N and N+1

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:03:38 +0100, Davide Brini <[email protected]> wrote:

> > t    
> 
> There's no harm in printing the first line of the pattern space, so the
> "t" can be removed. In fact, every time "t" is executed, you're
> effectively adding two more lines to the pattern space without removing
> the existing ones. This can lead to false matches in the s::: replacement
> (ie, times where foo and bar are more than one line apart, yet the
> replacement succeeds).

This is of course wrong. The appropriate remark is that by using "t", the
two lines currently in the buffer are printed at once, and foo/bar pairs
can be missed if "foo" is in the second of the two lines being printed.
Either way, "t" is at best useless.

-- 
D.