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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi (ex mode) command...
Summary: it is called :put
Keywords: ex, :yank, :put
Message-ID: <1627@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 31 May 90 15:38:09 GMT
References: <315@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In article <315@nwnexus.WA.COM> michael@nwnexus.UUCP (Michael Shemet) writes:
>Anyone know what the ex mode command for inserting the text from buffer 'a'
>in vi is? I can do this in visual mode IE 'put' the text from buffer 'a' with
>"ap ... I can also yank the text in ex mode with:
>
>:1,5y a

The command is

:put a

You can abbreviate it to

:pu a

but not to :p a, since :p abbreviates :print.

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Hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl