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- From: brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BRANDAUER CARL M)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
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- References: <1992Oct28.162607.5613@sunvax.sun.ac.za> <1992Oct28.214551.21668@wixer.cactus.org> <LYT86XN@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:29:20 GMT
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- wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff) writes:
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- ....... it is not even capable of performing one of the most elementary
- >text editing tasks: marking an arbitrary (!) block of text and by some
- >means copying or moving it to another place.
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- Nonsense! Put the cursor on the first character of the arbitrary text
- block and do a yank using a regular expression target. Everything up
- to but not including the regular expression can be duplicated anywhere
- you like, even in another file if named buffers are used. All this works
- with delete as well if the intent is to move the block.
-