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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Vi bashing
Message-ID: <1237@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 20:33:10 GMT
References: <22244@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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From article <22244@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, by gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast):
| In article <24@hcr.UUCP> stacey@hcrvax.UUCP (Stacey Campbell) writes:
|>    :'a,'bd
|>
|>or if the cursor is at the end of the range for deletion...
|>
|>    :'a,.d

| delete whole lines (that is what the above command does), you can just
| type d'a   (only 3 strokes).
| 
| then you should type d`a

But I'm in an "alternate" file (#) and I want to Yank to a named buffer so
I can go back and put the text in place.  One of the things that bothers
me about vi is it's lack of orthogonality (symmetry?).  I think I tried
Y'a"a, "aY'a, etc. and none of my attempts to extend "d" to "Y" seemed
to work.  Am I wrong or does anyone have further comments?
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet
	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.