[lug] Few vi problems

[Atkinson, Chip]

If you need to yank stuff between the php start and stop brackets, can you
not just use a regular expression?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starkey [mailto:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:24 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Few vi problems
> 
> 
> > ><td bgcolor=" <.?php $bgcolor ?> ">
> > >                       ^                            ^
> >
> > You need to yank from the "g" to something way past the end of line?
> 
> I guess it's pretty obvious I'm not a very good carrot maker 
> : } The PHP code
> and the brackets are what i needed to yank..... I used spaces 
> to seperate the
> carrots (no tabs) so I don;t know what happened. Looking at 
> it on NN/iMac it
> looks fine right now. But when I read your reply I saw that 
> there were 30 or
> so spaces between the carrots. Oh well.. Sorry.
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Yep. Thank you.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It's nvi. And man nvi is saying it looks for ~/.nexrc then 
> ~/.exrc and I've
> tried both of them as well as virc and vimrc for safe 
> measure. nvi -u ~/.nexrc
> just gave me illegal option. I RTFM and nothing in there 
> looks like it could
> be the equiv.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> John
> 
> 
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