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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Non-equivalence of targets in vi
Message-ID: <1032@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 02:26:44 EST
Article-I.D.: turtleva.1032
Posted: Sun Jan 19 02:26:44 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 01:16:26 EST
Organization: CIMLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA
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Keywords: [[ and ]]

All of the operators in vi can be used with nearly any target with count
modifiers:

   Operators		Targets
     c d y	w W e E b B ( ) { } % ^ $ 0 H M L h j k l
		f<char> F<char> t<char> T<char> <col>| '<mark>

For example, "c2t," will change the text from the cursor position
until the character before the second comma.

I say "nearly", because I can't seem to figure out how to do it with the
section targets [[ and ]].  Suppose I want to delete the next two sections
so that I could put them in a different place.  You'd think that

	d2]]

would be the natural way to express this action, but vi just beeps me.
I've also tried

	2d]]	and	d]2]

to no avail.  Any suggestions?
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CIMLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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