🚀 go-pugleaf

Leslie Mikesell <les@chinet.chi.il.us> writes:
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|   In article <1991Jun1.021505.4043@trl.oz.au> soh@andromeda.trl.OZ.AU (kam hung soh) writes:
|   >[...] I decided to dump emacs and use vi exclusively.
|   >It was a horrible experience.  No multiple files / views / buffers, no
|   >cut-and-paste between windows, no auto auto-indent for the code
|
|   You can, of course, run multiple vi's under any windowing system that
|   allows it, and use the windowing system's cut and paste if you
|   prefer it to explicit tmp files (I don't, except when one of the
|   windows is running something that doesn't know how to use files or
|   the programs in the different windows don't share a common filesystem).
|   You can also use an external program to auto-indent or whatever else
|   you need to do.

I may be missing something, but I usually use "ay} to save a paragraph
in buffer (?) a, switch files*, and do "ap where I want to put it back.
There are at least 26 such buffers available.  I also use marks a lot,
to move around faster.  It seems that these features are not well known.

* The only thing I hate about switching files is that vi insists on
writing out the current file and reading in the new file in its place.
Not always what I want.

</Erik>
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