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.nr VS 0.141i
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Addresses
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n,m	line n to line m
'	address mark, see k below
 .	currect selection/position
0	start of file
^	start of line
$	end of line/file
,	equivilent to 0,$
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Regular Expressions
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\.	any character
*	0 or more of previous
+	1 or more of previous
[^n]	any char but n
[nm]	n or m
[a-z]	class a thru z
(re)	tag pattern
\\#	substute #'th tagged pattern
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Text commands
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-/re/	search backward
+/re/	search forward
/re/	search in same direction as last
a/text/	Append text after dot
c/text/ 	Change text in dot
i/text/ 	Insert text before dot
d 	Delete text in dot
s/regexp/text/ 	Substitute text for regexp in dot 
m address 	Move dot to after address 
t address 	Copy dot to after address
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Display commands
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p 	Print contents of dot
= 	Print value of dot
n 	Print file menu list
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I/O commands
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b file-list	Set current file to first in menu list
B file-list	As b, but load new file-list
D file-list	Delete named buffers
e [filename] 	Replace current with file
r filename	Replace dot by contents of file
w filename	Write current to named file
f [filename]	Set current file name
< command	Replace dot by stdout of command
> command	Send dot to stdin of command
| command	Pipe dot through command
! command	Run the command
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Loops and conditionals
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x/regexp/ command 	Set dot and run command on each match
x cmd	Set dot and run command on each matching line
y/regexp/ command 	as x but select unmatched text
X/regexp/ command 	Run command on files whose menu line matches
Y/regexp/ command 	As X but select unmatched files
g/regexp/ command 	If dot contains regexp, run command
v/regexp/ command 	If dot does not contain, run command
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Miscellany
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k 	Set address mark to value of dot
q 	Quit
u n 	Undo last n (default 1) changes
{ } 	Braces group commands
<compose> Xnnnn	Insert char xxxx hex (Unix/Plan9)
Alt-nnnn	Insert char xxxx hex (Windows)
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Sam idioms
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X/.*/,x/<cr>/d	strip <cr> from all files
x/^\\/\\*/ \\.,/\\*\\/\\n/d	strip C comments from selection
-/^/+#10	goto the 10th collum in the current line
-0+,+0-	round dot down to whole lines only
,x/ +/ v/^/ c/ /	compress runs of spaces, leaveing indentation
s/"([^"]*)"/``\\1''/	replace "hello" with ``hello'' in selection
f <nl>	set current filename to null	
< echo "\\xxx"	insert ascii code xxx at current pos
, > wc -l	count lines in file
/text/+-p	highlight the lines containing <pat>
-/text/	search for text backwards
$-/text/	search for the last occurance of text in file
,x/<text>/+-p	grep for text
\.x/<pat>/ c/<rep>/	search for <pat> and replace with <rep>
B < echo *.c	add all the C files in current dir to file list
B < grep -l <pat> *	add all the files containing <pat> to file list
X/'/w	write all modified files
Y/\\.c/D	remove all non C files from filelist
| fmt	pipe selection thru the text formater
> mail <user>	send selection as email to <user>
x/\\n+/ a/\\n/	double space selection
x/^/ a/ /	indent selection 1 tab
x/^<tab>/d	remove 1 tab of indent from selection
/(.+\\n)+/	matches blocks of text seperated by blank lines
! date	get current date in sam window
,> wc	push file into wc, count appears in sam window
0 < date	instert date at start of file
1 < date	replace first line with todays date
X D	remove out all up-to-date files
,| sort	sort current file
,x/^TODAY$/ < date	replace TODAY on with the output of date
,x/Plan9/|tr a-z A-Z	replace all instances of Plan9 with uppercase
,t "junk.c" 0	copy current file to start of junk.c
-/.PP/,/.PP/-	highlight current paragraph in an nroff doc
,x/[a-zA-Z0-9]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr a-z A-Z	capatalise every word (slow)
,x[a-zA-Z]+/{
  g/fred/ v/...../ c/jim/
  g/jim/ v/..../ c/fred/
}	swap fred for jim in file
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