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From: stacey@hcr.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Vi bashing
Keywords: holy mackerel
Message-ID: <175@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 20:50:01 GMT
References: <587@alice.marlow.uucp> <4048@ttidca.TTI.COM> <960@myrias.UUCP> <24@hcr.UUCP> <4129@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: stacey@hcrvax.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <4129@ttidca.TTI.COM> kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
>In article 601 <24@hcr.UUCP> stacey@hcr.UUCP (Stacey Campbell)
>
>>You gotta see this to believe it, truly a case of the moronic
>>leading the blind.
>
>You are flaming me for something which is *YOUR* misconception.

Wrong.

The original question by the beginner user was "I want to delete lines
in vi, but I need to know an easy way to count the lines for deletion?"
This implies that user knew only one way to delete lines in vi, namely

	[integer]dd

So you, my extremely misguided friend, offer;

	'a,'bw! wc -l

to achieve the calculation of the integer.  This amounts to a
minimum of two execs and one fork (more likely two) to count
a range of marked lines so that a value can be prefixed to dd.

Obviously an extremely expensive and stupid way to delete lines.

>For the benefit of *your* reality I'd suggest following the discussion 
>more closely.

It is obvious you have failed utterly to follow the discussion,
I suggest you closely read all articles before you attempt to flame
lest you look even more like a twit.
-- 
Stacey Campbell, HCR Corporation, {lsuc,utzoo,utcsri}!hcr!stacey