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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi bashing
Keywords: holy mackerel
Message-ID: <1116@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 89 19:12:28 GMT
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In article <4129@ttidca.TTI.COM> kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) wrote:
>In article 601 <24@hcr.UUCP>
>From: stacey@hcr.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)

 >>>'a,'bw! wc -l
 
 >>This little exchange just totally freaks me out.  Of all the ways
 >>to delete text in vi I have never seen this solution, can anyone
 >>think of a more bizarre way to do this?
 
 >Freak not, and listen my friend. Look at the above command. 
 >Do you see *ANYTHING* that looks like a "delete". NO! We're talking about 
 >counting lines between marks. T H A T    I S    A L L; Now go crawl back 
 >to wherever you came.
 
 >For the benefit of *your* reality I'd suggest following the discussion 
 >more closely.

Try it yourself.  The issue of line counting came up because the
original flamer didn't know how to delete a block of text without
counting the lines on his fingers.  You changed the subject, and
are now flaming people who understood it in the first place.

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