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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: vi range delete sometimes gets lost
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.181950.3078@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:19:50 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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At seemingly random times when I delete a range of lines in vi using
the ex mode command :'a,.d
(delete from mark a through the cursor line), I can't move the deleted text 
with 'p' or 'P' to another location, although if I remember to do it
immediately 'u' will undo the deletion.   I never have this problem using
ndd to delete some number of lines, but I prefer to refer to ranges using
the "mark to cursor" notation.
Does anyone know why this happens or how to avoid it? 
(The vi in question is the one that comes with SysVr3).

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us