[lug] Few vi problems

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:00:02AM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>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 ?> ">
>                       ^                            ^

You need to yank from the "g" to something way past the end of line?
You can use yank by putting your cursor on one of the positions and using
movement keys to specify the endpoint.  If you have:

   <td bgcolor=" <.?php $bgcolor ?> ">
                 ^                ^

and your cursor is on the first carat, you can do:

   y18<space>
   yf>
   y6w

You get the idea...

>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

Maybe it's not using vim?  "vim -u ~/.vimrc" should do the trick if it's
vim, but being as how it's FreeBSD it's likely that it's using Berkeley nvi
instead.

Sean
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