[lug] Few vi problems

[John Karns]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Starkey said:

>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.

If you're using vim as it would seem from your rc files below, then:
Maybe not as automated as you'd like, but how about using the visual mode
to yank the desired text / space?


>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?

Is vim aliased to something like "vim -C"?

       -C          Compatible.   Set  the  'compatible'   option.
                   This will make Vim behave mostly like Vi, even
                   though a .vimrc file exists.

       -N          No-compatible  mode.   Reset  the 'compatible'
                   option.  This will make Vim behave a bit  bet
                   ter,  but  less  Vi  compatible, even though a
                   .vimrc file does not exist.

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John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net