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From: wsmith@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Query-replace on VI
Message-ID: <37200006@uiucdcsm>
Date: 18 May 88 03:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!wsmith    May 17 22:11:00 1988


You can copy any range of text with

:'a,'bco'c

where 'a, 'b and 'c represent marks, line numbers, /pattern/, ?pattern?, 
$ or . (% can be used instead of 'a,'b also).

Bill Smith	pur-ee!uiucdcs!wsmith	wsmith@a.cs.uiuc.edu

(Can the change directory command be trusted to work on all vi systems?
:chd /tmp
is an example.)