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From: wagner@iti.org (Larry Wagner)
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Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.055930.28169@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 05:59:30 GMT
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boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin) writes:

>In article <7214@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
>|> In <1991Mar18.195343.665@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>|>    Also, how about preserving the cut
>|>    buffer between files?


>Vi already does this.  If you yank or delete something, you put it
>into a named buffer.  For example, to delete a paragraph do "ad}
>then go to another file, and yank buffer a with "ap.

Yes, but it sure is nice not to even have to use a named buffer.  The MKS
DOS version of vi allows this and it sure is aggravating not to have that
capability on my UNIX machine also.
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