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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Summary: 'J' in vi
Message-ID: <23363@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Aug 88 03:46:04 GMT
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In article <2557@shark.TEK.COM> donr@shark.TEK.COM (Don Riss) writes:
<An aside - I've got to fix my .cshrc - it threw me into (yuk-ptui) vi
<to write this note.  I've just found out that J is the way you delete
<a CRLF.  Now that's not intuitively obvious to the casual observer...
<but may make some wierd sort of sense to the computer scientist who
<believes that control-J = LF (sometimes)

J is used to Join two lines.  It adds a space, if necessary, to keep
from running two words together.

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