Re: (clug-talk) [support] vi Copy & Paste - is this the way to do it?

[Jason Louie]

yw = Yank word
#yw   = Yank # of words
y$ = Yank till end of line
Jason



Curtis Sloan wrote:

Are there similar methods for yanking just a word or portions of a line?

Thanks,
Curtis.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Louie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) [support] vi Copy & Paste - is this the way to
do it?
Sure this is one way of doing it.  Another is
1.    goto the top of the section you want to copy
2.    copy the number of line you want copied (where # is the number of 
lines) >> #yy
3.    goto the place you want to copy it too and paste >> p

   There are a number of ways to do things like this.  The one above is 
a quick way of doing it without remembering which buffer you keep things 
in but the way you posted has multiple buffers to copy and paste with.  
I'm sure that are other ways but I think these two are the more common ones.

Jason

Curtis Sloan wrote:

 

I found a quick cheat sheet for vi here:

http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/classes/fa97/cse9a/vi.html

On that page it says this about copy and pasting:

MARK BEGINNING OF BLOCK "a"                   ma
COPY BLOCK FROM MARKER "a" TO CURSOR  "ay'a
PASTE BLOCK "a"                                               "ap
Is this the correct/best way to copy and paste in vi?  (Sorry, Jason Louie,
I can't get at my notes from your prezzy right now.)  :-P  I'm wondering
since it didn't work in PocketViC for the Pocket PC.
If there are any other ways to perform the same operation, please reply.
Maybe one will work where another doesn't on this implementation.
Thanks,
Curtis.