vi editor

[Berna Massingill]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:50:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

>>  On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:30 +0200, Kevac Marko wrote:
>>  > By the way, what is the best method to copy some text from one
>>  > position in the file to another position?
>>  > 
>>  > While using the simple method of mouse copy\paste we emphasize two
>>  > problems:
>>  > 
>>  > 1. We have to delete text from previous position using dd 
>>  > 2. If we copy text with tabs and than paste it, there are some
>>  > additional tabs appearing
>>  
>>  Delete it with some variation of dd - numberdd to delete some number
>>  of lines, or the ex mode d which takes any of the usual range selections
>>  (:line#,line#d, or :.,/pattern/d, etc.), then go where you want it and
>>  use P or p to put it before or after the cursor location respectively.
>>  

"visual mode" works well for this too -- use "v" plus cursor-movement
commands to select the text, then "d" or "D" to delete it.

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