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@@ -561,8 +561,16 @@ Commands may be grouped by enclosing them in curly braces. Semantically, the opening brace is like a command: it takes an .Pq optional address and runs each sub-command on the range. -Commands within the braces are executed sequentially, and changes made by one command are visible to other commands. -. +Commands within the braces are executed sequentially, but changes +made by one command are not visible to other commands. +.Pp +When a command makes a number of changes to a file, as in +.Ic x/re/c/text/ , +the addresses of all changes to the file are computed in the original +file. If the changes are non-overlapping, they are applied to the file. +Successive insertions at the same address are catenated into a single +insertion composed of the several insertions in the order applied. +.Pp Braces may be nested arbitrarily. . .Sh VI(M) KEY BINDINGS |