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- Subject: Re: Using vi to edit columns (was Re: Why I love VI)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.000647.3893@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
- From: chermesh@chen.bgu.ac.il (Ran Chermesh)
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:06:47 GMT
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- riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes) writes:
- : 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.
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- : > 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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- Can you elaborate? What name do they carry? How do we use it? (I'm a novice
- in the vi world and would appreciate help in installing the macros, not only
- in facilitating their retrieval).
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