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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!spiff.eece.mu.edu!anis From: anis@spiff.eece.mu.edu (Anis Rahman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Please help on cut and paste in vi editor Date: 3 Mar 1993 14:46:51 GMT Organization: Marquette University - Department of EECE Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1n2gcr$clb@spool.mu.edu> References: <1n0cao$27q@spool.mu.edu> <5018@vidiot.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiff.eece.mu.edu In article <5018@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >In article <1n0cao$27q@spool.mu.edu> anis@spiff.eece.mu.edu (Anis Rahman) writes: ><Can some kind soul let me know the key strokes to perform cut and paste ><of text blocks in the vi editor? Thanks in advance. > Thanks to everybody who responded. I still have a question. Is there a way of marking or highlighting the portion of text to be cut? This would be very convenient, because, for a text block bigger than one screen it is hard to find out the number of lines in the block. Thanks a lot. -Anis.