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- From: ttsai@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu (Timothy Tsai)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: vi question
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:49:24 -0500
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Sometimes I have problems specifying a range of lines to delete or yank. When
- I use a command like
-
- 'a,.d or 'a,.y (where 'a has already been marked)
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- and then try to use p or P to copy from the buffer, only one line (or
- sometimes, one character) shows up. Apparently, the buffer is not receiving
- all the lines that are being deleted or yanked. If I use a number-of-lines
- specifier instead of a range
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- (ie. 3dd or 3yy ),
-
- then I never have problems.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas why I am having this problem?
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- Please email me with any useful ideas.
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- Thanks.
- Timothy Tsai
- ttsai@uiuc.edu
-