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- From: asoper@wyvern.twuug.com (Aubrey Soper)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: vi (cut and paste)
- Keywords: vi
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.203441.20582@wyvern.twuug.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 20:34:41 GMT
- References: <3815@keele.keele.ac.uk>
- Organization: Tidewater UNIX Users Group
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- phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden) writes:
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-
- > hi,
- > Does anyone know how you cut a range of text to one
- >
- > of the named buffers, where the range does not cover
- >
- > an integer number of lines, i.e.,
-
- > How do i cut from here > text text text ..........
-
- > ............... n number of lines .....
-
- > ...... to here < into the named buffer "a for example?
-
- > Cheers,
-
- > Dave.
-
- "ad/<
-
- should do it. You can also mark the end and delete to
- that mark. I'd recommend that you get a book on vi, such
- as UNIX Text Processing by Hayden Books. With only the
- UNIX docs, you'll probably wind up hating vi...
-
- aubrey soper
-