On  2 Apr, Nick Croft wrote:
>  That's neat. I later found that if you put the pattern into a named 
>  buffer, you can paste it into the command line using 
>                  <ctrl-r> 
>  which produces a greyed-out ", after which you can put the buffer name. 

Thanks, that is neat.  I.e., when typing a : command, <ctrl-r>x  puts
the text from buffer x into the command line at that point.

A function of vim only, as you say.  nvi can't do that.

luke

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