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From: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Let's all calm down (Was Re: Vi bashing)
Message-ID: <7386@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 89 17:01:50 GMT
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Kevin Carothers (kevin@tticda.TTI.COM) wrote

  'a,'bw! wc -l

as a means for counting lines in a block.  Stacey Campbell (stacey@hcr.UUCP)
responded with an insult not worthy of repetition.  To which Mr. Carothers
insulted back.

Now let's all take a look at the question that started this whole thing.

"When deleting lines from vi, I have to tell it how many lines to delete.
How can I have vi count the number of lines for me?"

Mr. Carothers' solution is to the more focused question "How can I have
vi count the number of lines for me?" to which the above solution is
indeed correct.

Ms. (Mr.?) Campbell's was responding to the larger-scale question,
"How can I have vi delete blocks of text without having to count lines?"
to which her (his?) solution is also correct.

Mr. Carothers concluded with
> You know, I've about had enough of this.

Which, I think, sums everything up.

[My apologies to Stacey Carothers for not being sure of her/his chromosomal
	makeup.  It's one of those names that can go both ways.]

Calmly yours,

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