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- From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.195845.26399@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
- References: <1992Nov13.124435.20019@cas.org> <1992Nov13.152821.6781@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov13.192831.29277@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:58:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.192831.29277@cs.wisc.edu> cheevers@wolf.cs.wisc.edu (John Cheevers) writes:
- >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:
- >
- > !} awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'
- >
- > or :10,14 ! awk '{ printf "\%10s\%10s\%20s\n", $3, $2, $1}'
- >
-
- Oh boy! And this you call a screen editor? (That was what started the
- thread).
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- Michael Lemke
- Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
- (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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