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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: edit multiple files in vi?
Message-ID: <250@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:42:43 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.030424.27298@hybrid.UUCP> <630@mlacus.oz> <8652@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <8652@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
> In <630@mlacus.oz> david@mlacus.oz (David Letcher) explains:

> >javey@hybrid.UUCP (Shahram Javey) asked:

> >>Is there a way to edit multiple files in vi so that one could move
> >>from one file to next and back again?
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


.... much stuff deleted ....

> but I have not yet become so adept at vi that I use this way to yank,
> cut, and paste between different files without leaving vi.  I suppose
> that most of us receive poor training at the outset and fall into bad
> habits.  The vi books all suck in how they teach you to use these
> features which is one reason I am writing a better one.

Really?  I thought it was pretty well covered in our VI Pocket Tutorial.
Like all our products it isn't designed for WordStar users who want a 500
page book on how to delete a line but, if you can understand a non-redundant
explanation I think it does a good job (and I didn't even write it. :-) )

Before you write a "better" book, take a look at it.  If you (or anyone
else) thinks it "sucks" let us know.  We like to write useful, precise
books.  That's why we offer a free book to anyone who is the first person
to report an error in our publications.

And, yes, they are available in Germany.  Try Fuchbachhandlung fur 
Informatik und Elektronik in Frankfurt.  (Whew, it is so much easier
for me to type Computer Literacy or Cucumber. :-) )

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