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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Subject: Re: vi (cut and paste)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.013531.24940@ichips.intel.com>
- Keywords: vi
- Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
- References: <3815@keele.keele.ac.uk> <1992Aug17.200149.7817@s912%bnf.com> <515@alden.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:35:31 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <515@alden.UUCP> sgr@alden.UUCP (Stan Ryckman) writes:
- >"Mark" (the "m" command) only marks the line, NOT the cursor
- >position within the line.
-
- Just what sort of vi(1) are you using?
-
- The backtick (`) command would be useless unless the mark
- (m) command marked the precise location of the cursor, and
- both have worked just fine for me on the dozen or so UNIXen
- on which I've had the opportunity to run vi(1).
-
- --Blair
- "No, I won't make a crude
- remark about how silly
- this argument would be
- in EMACS."
-