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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi for power users
Message-ID: <1990Dec08.200418.6663@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Dec 90 20:04:18 GMT
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In article <109909@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>Not exactly, but I think I can probably do anything you would like
>done.  Post your problem, I'll post an answer.

Can anyone apply? Here's mine:

1) What is a quick and portable way to reform a paragraph?  Macro solutions
preferred since most of the machines I use don't have fmt and the ones that
have nroff are two slow to use it.  A macro involving a pipe to awk might
work if it can't be done internally.

2) How do you manipulate arbitrary rectangles of text (copy/delete/move)?
Ideally you should only have to position the cursor to the corners to
delimit the range.  (This is trivial on almost all PC wordprocessing
programs these days...).

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us