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- From: cheevers@wolf.cs.wisc.edu (John Cheevers)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.192831.29277@cs.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:28:31 GMT
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- mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein) writes:
- > 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
- ^^^^ word?
- >getting jsut characters: "ayl a is the same as above and yl is
- >yank letters, getting easier? :)
-
- This could give you problems with lining up columns.
- An easier way is to pipe the paragraph through awk:
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- !} awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'
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- or :10,14 ! awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'
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- John Cheevers
- cheevers@cs.wisc.edu
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