On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> | I'd say I'm pretty much joe average: emacs isn't even on my system, and
> | after two years of using linux I still don't know how to cut and paste
> | in vim :)
> 
> Press 'v' to enter "VISUAL" mode.  Then move the cursor to select the
> text area you want.  'y' will "yank" (copy) the text to the
> cut-buffer.  'p' will "paste" that text "after" the cursor location,
> 'P' will "paste" before the cursor location.  Or just use the mouse
> :-).

Or y<action> to yank simple text areas: for example, yw yanks a word, yy
a line, and y} from the cursor to the end of the paragraph.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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