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Re: VI??? GROSS!

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From: Michael Lemke
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:58
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In article <1992Nov13.192831.29277@cs.wisc.edu> cheevers@wolf.cs.wisc.edu (John Cheevers) writes:
>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}'
>

Oh boy!  And this you call a screen editor?  (That was what started the 
thread).


-- 
Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
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