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Article #1371Re: VI??? GROSS!
From: Michael Grabenstein
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28
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To move blocks around use the named buffers in vi. Then you can have up to 26 little clipboards. (vi command: "ayy Where a is any lower case alpha letter and yy is the yank command. Get it back by "ap See isn't that easy? :) Moving columns around??? What editor will unless it is a word processor that can do columns, then its easy. But in vi my suggestions would be to use a seperate named buffer for each line in the column and then place and join. (vi command for getting jsut characters: "ayl a is the same as above and yl is yank letters, getting easier? :) The vi editors that wait for esc to be pressed... Remember that vi works very differently on different terms and it will work on just about every term known. Plus every manufacuer of Unix machines seems like they have to change something in vi so there is some obscure little difference in theirs verses Everyone elses. Later, Mike mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov or grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!nsisrv!asylum!mikeg From: mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein) Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS! Message-ID: <1992Nov13.152821.6781@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: none References: <LYT86XN@math.fu-berlin.de> <1992Nov12.232530.18958@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Nov13.124435.20019@cas.org> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28:21 GMT Lines: 22