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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
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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.