topic yank and paste by vi commands in Operating System - Linux

yank and paste by vi commands

Shivkumar — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:56:44 GMT

Hi,

I have opened 2 files rose and pink for editing by using the command $vi rose pink.

What are the vi commands to yank (copy) 15 lines in the buffer from file rose and paste them to another file pink ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: yank and paste by vi commands

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:13:38 GMT

you should d a15yy on file 1 ( stores 15 lines in buffer a )

then ap in the second file

-USA..

Re: yank and paste by vi commands

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:15:35 GMT

Hi Shiv:

This is all to familar. See your previous post and its responses:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1076397&admit=-682735245+1173906853730+28353475

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: yank and paste by vi commands

hpuxrox — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:31:16 GMT

$vi rose pink <-- unix shell

15yy <--vi command mode

:n <-- vi last line mode

p <-- vi command mode

:x <-- vi last line mode

$ <-- UNIX shell

Done

Re: yank and paste by vi commands

Steven Schweda — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:56 GMT

Having to remember stuff like this for "vi"
is part of what makes "vim -g" popular.

http://www.vim.org/