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From: jai@im4u.UUCP (Jai Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vi tips- summary number one
Message-ID: <2137@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 12:28:56 EDT
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In article <2551@okstate.UUCP> gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly) writes:

>What most VI users fail to discover is that you can use the 'd', 'y', and 'c'
>commands to effect their purpose on any region that is delimited by moving
>the cursor with the following keystrokes.  

Add to that list >, < and ! which left shift, right shift and filter text
through commands respectively.

>'s' is 'cl', 'C' is 'c$', 'D' is 'd$' and 'S' is 'cc' (which makes absolutly no
>sense).  All you have to do is learn the movements, and then you know how to
>yank/delete/change whatever region of text you desire.

Similarly 'Y' is 'yy'.  I prefer to map 'Y' to 'y$' for consistency.
The "operators" >, < and ! don't have a shifted analogue, naturally.

Other mappings convenient for typing are 'g' to 'G' and 'v' to 'J' (join 
lines).  'g' and 'v' have no assigned function in the regular command set.

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