RE: UNIX question: Can vi do this?

I just tried the following, and it worked:

/Subject*[^some topic]

(I used different parameters, but that should work for you...)

HTH,
Diana

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From: yong huang [mailto:yong321_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: UNIX question: Can vi do this?

In vi, can my cursor jump to a line that contains a string but not another string with one command? E.g., I can type "/Subject" (no quotes) to jump to the
next occurrence of "Subject". Now I want to jump to the line (anywhere on that
line is OK) that contains "Subject" but does not contain "some topic" in a text
file I'm reading. How can I do that? It seems the "/" command in vi doesn't understand regular expressions. Thanks for help.  

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Yong Huang