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From: srini@ut-sally.UUCP (Srinivasan Sundararajan)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: "Toggling file names in vi"
Message-ID: <1617@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 22:48:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 22:48:22 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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>> A great example of the use of toggling file names in vi is the use of the
>> two files accessed by vi after a  a (r)eply or (f)ollowup command from vnews.
>> The first file is the temporary file which will become your reply/followup.
>> To read this article file into your reply/followup temporary file give these
>> commands.
>> 
>> :n			To go to the article file
>> 
>> :e #			To go back to the temporary file
>> 
>> :$r #			Read the article file into the original file.
>> 
>> Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
>> {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls

Unfortunately, doesn't work on our "vi" !
What I do is to just s(ave) the file while in vnews, and read it in into my
tmp file using :r Articles