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From: gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi bashing
Keywords: user-friendly, clear documentation, ease of use
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Date: 19 Mar 89 04:31:31 GMT
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In article <960@myrias.UUCP> dbf@myrias.UUCP (David Ferrier) writes:
>Thanks for posting an ingenious and elegant solution. 

Another article already posted a better solution so I won't repeat it.

>It also highlights the problem that in vi there is no EASY, OBVIOUS way 
>to delete a large block of text.  For dozens of other editors, 
>the procedure is "Just Say Delete".  When vi also becomes user-friendly, 
>clearly documented, and easy to use, please post.


There are objects w (for word), G (for last line of file), 'a (for
place marked a), G (for last line of file), ) (for sentence), } (for
paragraph), etc.  These objects can take counts too.

If you want to delete the next 3 paragraphs, you type d3}.  What could
be easier?  If you want to delete to the end of file, you type dG.  Not
very difficult at all and clearly documented.

David Gast
gast@cs.ucla.edu
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