Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!male!mugwump.UK.Sun.COM!carl From: carl@mugwump.UK.Sun.COM (Carl Johnson - Sun EHQ - MIS) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi yank to buffer (was Re: if you could have anything in vi) Message-ID: <5831@male.EBay.Sun.COM> Date: 25 Mar 91 09:57:48 GMT References: <1962@quando.quantum.de> Sender: news@male.EBay.Sun.COM Lines: 14 In article , Dan_Bloch@TRANSARC.COM writes: > > :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. Que? What did you mean by this last bit, as everything I have tried works more than once. Cheers, Carl.