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mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein) writes:
>	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
 ^^^^ word?
>getting jsut characters:  "ayl  a is the same as above and yl is
>yank letters, getting easier? :)

This could give you problems with lining up columns.
An easier way is to pipe the paragraph through awk:

	!} awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'

    or  :10,14 ! awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'

John Cheevers
cheevers@cs.wisc.edu