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Hello Bob,

In article <4b1d02$nq@kirin.wwa.com>, Bob Zimmerman <bobzim@wwa.com> wrote:
>I've been using VI for well over a year know and it is 
>my editor of choice (that could say something good
>or bad about me I guess)... 
>
>But there has always been a couple of items I would
>search help for and can't seem to find and I finally
>decided to ask my local neighberhood before I track
>down the misc.editor (or whatever) newsgroup :)
>
>a) Whenever I yank to a bookmark (e.g.) I mark 
>the begining of some text I want to duplicate by 
>pressing mm in command mode, then move to the 
>end of that section and do a 
>
>y'm
>
>to yank it... The cursor always moves to the mm
>location :(  Since I am duplicating the lines,
>I want it to stay right where it was so I can 
>do the "p" thing :)

Use ''  (single quotation mark twice) to get the cursor back where
it was, then paste.

>Any ideas how to yank it without the jumping
>or an easier "dupe" it way to do it... 
>
>b) (the only other question :), is how to 
>repeat the last action, regardless of what it was.
>
>I know that "n" repeats the last find and ";" repeats
>the last semi-colon... 
>
>I find I do alot of /pattern, then a cw to change the
>word I found... 

A dot in command mode repeats last action.  If you do cw,
then type the substitution, then escape back to command mode,
you can move cursor to another word, type . and that word
will be replaced.

>I would like to repeat this manner... I don't want 
>to do a :%s/pattern/ etc... because...
>how do I have it prompt me for each one (each
>change) to determine if it "should" do it (sort of yes/no)
>for each find... 

Use /c (for "confirm") at the end.  E.g. :%s/mcs/wwa/gc  :-)

Hope this helps.

  01eg

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