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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.204801.11908@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Mar 91 20:48:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.011942.27074@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1962@quando.quantum.de> <27674@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <27674@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:

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

>ja:

>120Gma147G"ay`a

What's wrong with:
:120,145 yank a
or (my preference for most range-style commands) set a mark on the first
line you want, move to the last line and reference the range as (assuming
mark a is used)
:'a,. y a

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us