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- From: riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)
- Subject: Re: Using vi to edit columns (was Re: Why I love VI)
- Message-ID: <riskit-130892093806@47.201.0.36>
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- References: <riskit-100892113813@47.201.0.36> <Bsu0EG.73F@root.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:38:45 GMT
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- In article <Bsu0EG.73F@root.co.uk>, gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) wrote:
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- > In <riskit-100892113813@47.201.0.36> riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes) writes:
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- > > My main objection is that you cannot use vi to edit columns.
- >
- > Which is why I wrote some macros to do "block delete and copy".
- > They are available from the worldwide vi archive sites.
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- What, or more precisely where, are these worldwide vi archive sites?
- Where is the closest one to Ottawa, Canada?
- I would like to try these out, but first why would a block delete and
- copy work? I would expect by the name that you block and copy rows, since
- vi is a stream editor not columns.
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- riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)
-
- No passion on earth, no love or hate
- Is equal to the passion
- to change someone else's code
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