On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:50:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:30 +0200, Kevac Marko wrote:
> > By the way, what is the best method to copy some text from one
> > position in the file to another position?
> >
> > While using the simple method of mouse copy\paste we emphasize two
> > problems:
> >
> > 1. We have to delete text from previous position using dd
> > 2. If we copy text with tabs and than paste it, there are some
> > additional tabs appearing
>
> Delete it with some variation of dd - numberdd to delete some number
> of lines, or the ex mode d which takes any of the usual range selections
> (:line#,line#d, or :.,/pattern/d, etc.), then go where you want it and
> use P or p to put it before or after the cursor location respectively.
>
"visual mode" works well for this too -- use "v" plus cursor-movement
commands to select the text, then "d" or "D" to delete it.
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-- blm