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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.185540.16898@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:55:40 GMT
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- From the keyboard of wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff):
- :Most repliers to my posting seem to be that well accustomed to the fact
- :that vi is a line editor that they didn't see my point when I wrote
- :"arbitrary (!) block of text" (well, maybe "block" was misleading). This
- :is not a block of lines (which is the unit of most vi operations) and
- :since I referred to "elementary text editing tasks" I didn't mean columns
- :either. Suppose I have the lines
- : word1 word2 word1
- : word3 word4 word3
- :and I need the text from "word2 " up to "word4" (assume it's a sentence)
- :to be copied or moved elsewhere.If an editor cannot do this with a
- :simple command sequence (and without the search trick burdening me with
- :the task of counting the occurences of the word following my sentence
- :within my sentence, if it can be done that way at all), I just do not
- :call it a text editor.
-
- Use one of
-
- y2W " two words
- y) " end of sentence
- y$ " end of line
-
- It isn't very hard.
-
- --tom
-