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From riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)
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Subject: Re: Using vi to edit columns (was Re: Why I love VI)
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:38:45 GMT
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In article <Bsu0EG.73F@root.co.uk>, gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) wrote:
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> In <riskit-100892113813@47.201.0.36> riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes) writes:
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> > My main objection is that you cannot use vi to edit columns.
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> Which is why I wrote some macros to do "block delete and copy".
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> They are available from the worldwide vi archive sites.
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What, or more precisely where, are these worldwide vi archive sites?
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Where is the closest one to Ottawa, Canada?
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I would like to try these out, but first why would a block delete and
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copy work? I would expect by the name that you block and copy rows, since
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vi is a stream editor not columns.
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riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)
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No passion on earth, no love or hate
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Is equal to the passion
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to change someone else's code
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