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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi Alternative Required
Summary: a couple answers
Message-ID: <1990Dec08.045506.10954@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 90 04:55:06 GMT
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joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) wrote in <joshi.660440350@m.cs.uiuc.edu>:

| Another problem which I have not solved yet is that while I am editing a
| file and want to change my function keys, can I run some other .exrc
| like file from inside the editor?

Of course you can.  Use the :so (for "source") command.

| I want to do this. I have not yet figured out how I can pass a part of
| the file through a filter.  I know how to do this for the entire file
| though.

You can pass a contiguous range of whole lines through a filter with
:first,last !filter; first and last do not have to be numbers but can be any
legitimate way for to designate a line in an ex command.  If the area to be
filtered begins or ends in the middle of a line, you can break the line,
filter the appropriate section, and then rejoin the parts.

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