Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >> begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:36:52PM >> -0700: >> [snip] >> >> >>> Now for a vim question. (I've gotten better with vim. I even >>> discovered (by accident) command history.) >>> >>> In vim, how do you cut and paste? I like the function of "dd" to >>> vaporize a line and "9d" to vaporize 9 lines (and so on). But can I >>> delete one line (or more) and paste it somewhere else? How about >>> copy and paste? (This would make vim *far* more useful to me.) >>> >> >> The command "p" will paste the cut buffer (or unnamed register) after the >> cursor, and "P" will paste before. >> >> The "d" command deletes lines and puts 'em into the cut buffer. >> >> The "y" command copies lines into the cut buffer. >> >> In edit mode, control-V selects a rectangular region, and shift-V >> selects whole lines. You can use these to copy or move text. >> >> You can put data into/from a named register if you want to hang on to >> several different deletes/copies. >> >> Have you found out about marking yet? >> >> >> > LOL, not yet. I've heard that vim is a behemoth to learn, but also that > you don't need to know much of it to be useful. I've scratched the > surface (although you would have to use a microscope to see the scratch). > > Thanks for the tip about vimtutor. I just fired it up. I haven't gone > anywhere with it yet. But I shall. (The problem with man vim (or is it > info vim?) is that it's like being handed a car repair manual that is > *not* bound. >
HahHah! Good analogy. You _may_ get /some/ value out of the online help in the gui version (gvim). If you don't have gvim, you can install the vim-X11 package. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
