From alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Re: Writing out a section of a file to another file with vi ???
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:14:35 GMT

mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:

:>What's the easiest way to write out a "block" of lines to another file, 
:>without having to count the lines, or find the first line number and the
:>last?   What I'd really like to do is dump a named buffer to disk:

:>mx
:>y'x
:>write x to disk 

Once you have yanked to the *named* buffer, :e the file you want
to write it into, and just put it.  NAMED buffers are remembered
by vi; it's only the UNNAMED one which is lost when switching files.
You will have to :w the current file before :e to the new one if
there were any changes (unless you :set autowrite, or are willing
to lose the changes).

Alternatively, if you want to write to disk file pip from the
current line to mark x, just :.,'x w pip...

I suggest that any followup be to comp.editors, as a more appropriate
newsgroup than comp.unix.anything would be.
-- 
Alex Martelli - alex@am.sublink.org - +39 (51) 250434 - Bologna, Italia


From rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
Subject: Re: Writing a "block" of lines to another file
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 12:41:44 GMT

In article <Bv6n4M.Dox@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
>I'd like to be able to write a "block" of lines to a file, without having to
>count the lines, or get the start & end loine number.  Can I use the temp
>buffers something like:
>
>mx
>y'x
>write x to file

Almost right.  Mark the first line of the block, say, mx.  Move to
the last line of the block and do any of:
:'x,.w file         [if writing to a new file]
or
:'x,.w! file        [if re-writing an existing file]
or
:'x,.w >> file      [if appending to an existing file]
as necessary.

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From yan@integ.frec.bull.fr (Yves A. Nicollet)
Subject: Re: Writing a "block" of lines to another file
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: Y.A.Nicollet@frec.bull.fr

In article <1992Sep26.124144.6699@umbc3.umbc.edu>, rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>In article <Bv6n4M.Dox@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
>>I'd like to be able to write a "block" of lines to a file, without having to
>>count the lines, or get the start & end loine number.  Can I use the temp
>>buffers something like:
>>
>>mx
>>y'x
>>write x to file
>
>Almost right.  Mark the first line of the block, say, mx.  Move to
>the last line of the block and do any of:
>:'x,.w file         [if writing to a new file]
>or
>:'x,.w! file        [if re-writing an existing file]
>or
>:'x,.w >> file      [if appending to an existing file]
>as necessary.

And if you wanted to move lines from a file to another file you would like
then to edit, you could:

go to the 1st line and type
mx                 [to mark the beginning of the block]
go to the last line and type
"xy'x              [to yank from the mark x till the current line into buffer x]
go to the other file by typing
:e# (or :e file)
go to where you want to put the block and type
"xp