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From: david@bacchus.esa.oz (David Burren)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi with windows?
Message-ID: <821@bacchus.esa.oz>
Date: 20 Nov 90 02:26:21 GMT
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In <6284@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:

>if you are swapping between two files a lot.. edit one then use :n file2 or
>:e file2 to start up the second one.. once you have done this once you can
>use :e# or ^^ (ctrl-shift-6) (I have also noticed that ^6 works.. is this
>an undocumented feature?) to swap between the two.. 

No Steve, it's just that your keyboard is producing the same character for
each key combination.  It's not unusual in doing that.
If you're ever curious about things like that, `cat -v` is a useful tool.


>just one question to those that may have followed this note this far.. I
>know the :n goes to the next file in your arglist.. :ar lists them and :rew
>rewinds them and put you back to the start.. but is there any way to step
>through the files backwards one at a time? < :p don't work and :e# has a
>toggling effect >

No sorry, but lemme know, ok? :-)
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