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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: deleting lines in vi
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.134219.13982@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Keywords: vi, delete
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:42:19 GMT
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- From the keyboard of steven@Transact.COM (Steven List):
- :When deleting, yanking, or otherwise modifying using movement commands,
- :VI only works on whole lines.
-
- y3w seems to work for me.
-
- --tom
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