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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 21:39:46 EDT
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> >Hey!  Wait a Minute!  I use the "F" command a lot, even when I'm only
> >going to include one sentence from the original posting (like this one)!
> 
> Me, too -- I just used it now. The point is that you can do what you
> need to do when you *really* want and need to include stuff from the
> original article by first doing an "s" save to another file, then
> "reading" that file into your editor buffer, and extracting what you
> need. That is, you can still do just what "F" now does, but it is harder
> and more tedious. This will help discourage people from doing it.

It is not necessary to save into a file and then read from that file.  The
followup places the filename of the original article in the environment
variabile $A.  From vi I can just:

	:r $A

And get the entire article.  It's faster and I don't have to remember to
delete the temporary file.  I use this sometimes when I delete too much of
the original article.  Of course this does not cause the "> " marking of
the quoted material.

				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
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