[lug] Few vi problems

[Holshouser, David]

My favorite way to do this is a little simpler if not as efficient.

Place your cursor on the first letter you want yanked.
enter the number of characters you want yanked.
Press x
9x
will CUT 9 letters. You will then hit p to Put them back where you cut them
from
and they will still be in your buffer for use elsewhere.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Starkey [SMTP:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:00 AM
> To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject:	[lug] Few vi problems
> 
> Can someone help with this? I've looked through every vi manual I could
> find online and in :h
> 
> I need to yank x chars from some code. yw isn't gonna work because of
> the chars. Optimally I'd like to be able to grab:
> 
> <td bgcolor=" <.?php $bgcolor ?> ">
>                        ^                            ^
> The spaces between the carrots is what i need to yank and paste.
> 
> The next question: I'm on a remote FreeBSD virtual server. I've tried
> every .* file I could think of (.vimrc, .virc, .exrc) and couldn't get
> it to load in my vimrc. Is there a way to specify the rc file path in
> vi? And on a related note, is there a way to specify the syntax file
> path?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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