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- From: mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.152821.6781@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28:21 GMT
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- To move blocks around use the named buffers in vi. Then you
- can have up to 26 little clipboards. (vi command: "ayy Where
- a is any lower case alpha letter and yy is the yank command.
- Get it back by "ap See isn't that easy? :)
-
- Moving columns around??? What editor will unless it is a
- word processor that can do columns, then its easy. But in vi
- my suggestions would be to use a seperate named buffer for each
- line in the column and then place and join. (vi command for
- getting jsut characters: "ayl a is the same as above and yl is
- yank letters, getting easier? :)
-
- The vi editors that wait for esc to be pressed... Remember
- that vi works very differently on different terms and it will
- work on just about every term known. Plus every manufacuer of
- Unix machines seems like they have to change something in vi
- so there is some obscure little difference in theirs verses
- Everyone elses.
- Later,
- Mike
- mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
- or grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
-