vi foo (deleting up)

[sbc_compliant]

d?PATTERN

will rm up to and *including* the previous example of PATTERN.

coool stuff.


Also, in the Meta-foo category, I thiink I'm beginning to grok the man page use of the terms operand and operator. In the above example, d is the operator and ?PATTERN is the operand.

Operators are the action verbs. Operands are the adverbs and adverbial phrases.