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- From: sgr@alden.UUCP (Stan Ryckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: vi (cut and paste)
- Keywords: vi
- Message-ID: <517@alden.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:29:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.200149.7817@s912%bnf.com> <515@alden.UUCP> <ianh.714279888@romeo>
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- Organization: Alden Electronics, Westboro, MA
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- In article <ianh.714279888@romeo> ianh@nmpd.oz.au writes:
- >sgr@alden.UUCP (Stan Ryckman) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Aug17.200149.7817@s912%bnf.com> bibb@s912%bnf.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
- >>>In <3815@keele.keele.ac.uk> phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden) writes:
- [deleted examples of cut and paste]
- [Then I wrote:]
- >>NOT!
- >
- >I think I have worked out the English translation for this exclamation :-)
- O.K., NOT! to my own NOT! (does "NOT! NOT!" == "YES!"?) :-)
-
- >or maybe (just maybe) you used ' instead of `.
- You got it! Ugh, I guess need new glasses. Sorry about that.
-
- >>"Mark" (the "m" command) only marks the line, NOT the cursor
- >>position within the line.
- >
- >This is totally incorrect.
- Conceded, based upon subsequent experimenting. Does anything other
- than ` access that "mid-line" mark?
-
- Well, I learned something new about vi. I'll add ` to my list of
- useful but undocumented commands.
- >--
- >- ian...
- >
- >Ian Holland. NMPD, Telecom. % Ph: +61 7 837 5075 % Explicit hoc totum,
- >E-Mail: ianh@nmpd.oz.au % Fax: +61 7 837 5253 % Pro Christo da mihi potum!
-
- Thanks Ian, and apologies to all for waste of bandwidth.
-
- Stan.
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- Stan Ryckman sgr@alden.UUCP
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