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Yup, notably the famous %s/PATTERN1/PATTERN2/g, which I suppose comes from sed

vi and sed took the s/ syntax from ed, independently of each other.

Right! ed was the first one, and its ideas and commands influenced sed (a "streams" ed), and ex (an "extended" editor, which also had a "vi"sual mode).

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