Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!maart
From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: vi case-change question
Message-ID: <2832@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Jul 89 15:56:55 GMT
References: <1055@gtx.com> <4750026@hpirs.HP.COM>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lines: 15

wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) writes:
\> In vi, I would like to use the '~' operation on more than one character
\
\In addition to Bo's suggestions, HP-UX vi for releases s800 3.0 and
\s300 6.5 or later has been modified to accept a count before the "~"
\operator.  So for your example the command "99~" would do what you
\want.

What you REALLY want is `~' to become an operator, so you can say things like

	~3w
.
-- 
"I HATE arbitrary limits, especially when |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
   they're small."  (Stephen Savitzky)    |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart