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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: vi case-change question
Message-ID: <4750027@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 02:14:35 GMT
References: <2832@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> \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 thought about doing this but it would mean a single `~' would not
have the effect it now does.  To get the same behavior a user would
have to enter "~l" or perhaps "~~".

Wayne