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From: pfeifer@helix.nih.gov (John Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI Hint requested
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Date: 17 Dec 90 13:40:18 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.003156.28032@informix.com>
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In article <1990Dec17.003156.28032@informix.com>, billd@infmx.informix.com (William Daul) writes:
|> USING VI....
|> 
|> 1.  Given a number of lines that looked like this:
|> 
|> one two three four five six
|> 
|> How would I create a file that looked like this from the above:
|> 
|> one
|> two
|> three
|> four
|> five 
|> six  

Easy enough -  :%s/\ /^V<CR>/g      (^V == crtl-V, <CR> == return)

|> 2.  What if the lines looked like this:
|> 
|> one two three four
|>   one two     three four
|> one    two three four

Ok, do the same as above and then - :g /^&/ d    (in this case, ^ is the carret
character)

If you want to be techincal, these are ex commands.

-John

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