From riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)
Subject: Re: Using vi to edit columns (was Re: Why I love VI)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:38:45 GMT

In article <Bsu0EG.73F@root.co.uk>, gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) wrote:
> 
> In <riskit-100892113813@47.201.0.36> riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes) writes:
> 
> >  My main objection is that you cannot use vi to edit columns.
> 
> Which is why I wrote some macros to do "block delete and copy". 
> They are available from the worldwide vi archive sites.

    What, or more precisely where, are these worldwide vi archive sites?
Where is the closest one to Ottawa, Canada?
    I would like to try these out, but first why would a block delete and 
copy work? I would expect by the name that you block and copy rows, since 
vi is a stream editor not columns.
  

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riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes)

No passion on earth, no love or hate
Is equal to the passion 
to change someone else's code