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From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
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Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:42:53 GMT
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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.

jb