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Article #3449Re: Vi bashing
From: David Gast
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1989 04:31
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1989 04:31
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In article <960@myrias.UUCP> dbf@myrias.UUCP (David Ferrier) writes:
>Thanks for posting an ingenious and elegant solution.
Another article already posted a better solution so I won't repeat it.
>It also highlights the problem that in vi there is no EASY, OBVIOUS way
>to delete a large block of text. For dozens of other editors,
>the procedure is "Just Say Delete". When vi also becomes user-friendly,
>clearly documented, and easy to use, please post.
There are objects w (for word), G (for last line of file), 'a (for
place marked a), G (for last line of file), ) (for sentence), } (for
paragraph), etc. These objects can take counts too.
If you want to delete the next 3 paragraphs, you type d3}. What could
be easier? If you want to delete to the end of file, you type dG. Not
very difficult at all and clearly documented.
David Gast
gast@cs.ucla.edu
{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast
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