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From: Dan_Bloch@TRANSARC.COM
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Subject: Re: vi yank to buffer (was Re: if you could have anything in vi)
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Date: 23 Mar 91 22:10:58 GMT
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elliott@quando.quantum.de (C. David Elliott) writes:

> Is there a way to yank a specified set of lines into a cut-buffer?  Like:
>
> :120,145 "aY
> or
> :.,/}/ "aY

Sort of.  The good news is yes, you can say

    :120,145y a
    or
    :.,/}/y a

The bad news is that in all the versions of vi I know, it only works once
per vi session.

By the way, the most interesting use of this is to do something like

    :g/foo/y A

which puts all lines containing "foo" into buffer a.

Dan Bloch
dan@transarc.com