yank and paste by vi commands

[Shivkumar]

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

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

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

then ap in the second file


-USA..

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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...

[hpuxrox]

$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

[Steven Schweda]

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

http://www.vim.org/