"Select All" in vi

[Hunki]

Does anybody know how to do a select all in vi.

thanks,
hunki.

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

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[Pete Randall]

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Pete

[Hunki]

How to paste it ( the whole text ) and also to delete the whole text..


thanks
hunki

[Paul Sperry]

Paste?? Why not just copy the file?

cp oldfile newfile

If your going from unix to window$ I'd just
ftp the file to window$.

[Paul Sperry]

And to delete all the text just delete the file.

rm filename.

If you wnat to keep the file with no text just cat /dev/null

cat /dev/null > filename

[Hunki]

the ftp is not working and I want to select this big file in one of my workspace and then copy it over to a file in the next workspace.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Ah... pooor man's file transfer!

I find it better to use a lean and mean tool like 'cat' for that vs an editor.

Yuo want to avoid the 'added value' that en editor offer as it may slow down the abilty to gobble up the paste buffer at top speed.
Furthermore you do not want vi to do something 'smart' like line wrap or look for corresponding open parenthesis for a close and so on.

Just do: cat > somefile
Now paste and control-b

hth,
Hein.

[Pete Randall]

To paste in vi, use "p".


Pete

[spex]

Hi Hunki,

Text you yank into vi's paste buffer is not placed in the X-Windows clipboard. In order to read text into the X clipboard without having to manually select it all, use a program like 'xclip' (available for Linux).

For example:
$ xclip -i largetextfile.txt

Now the contents of largetextfile.txt are in the X clipboard, and can be pasted via a middle-click.

PCS

[Hunki]

thanks !