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  • Vim (To move text-Lines between files) ___ :ab wt w! ~/temp.vi ___ :ab

    From Hen Hanna@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 09:17:46 2023
    within Vim, do
    :smile

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    To move text-Lines between files --- i do this (below).... Maybe there's a better (or more standard) way, but i've been doing this for 30+ years, so i'll prob. keep doing it.


    i have these in my .vimrc file.

    :ab qq q!

    :ab wt w! ~/temp.vi
    :ab rt r ~/temp.vi
    So i can ..

    [1] from one file, do

    :.wt -- write 1 line to temp file
    :.,.+5 wt -- write 6 lines to temp file
    :.,'a wt -- write up to (and including) mark A to temp file

    [2] optionally edit the temp file

    [3] from another file, do the following to read (in) the temp file

    :rt



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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Hen Hanna on Sun Feb 26 18:28:23 2023
    On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:17:46 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna wrote:


    To move text-Lines between files --- i do this (below).... Maybe
    there's a better (or more standard) way, but i've been doing this for
    30+ years, so i'll prob. keep doing it.


    You can use the buffers.

    "a yy will add the current line to buffer a.

    "A 5 yy will add 5 lines to buffer a. Note the use of case.

    "a p will write the contents of buffer a to the other file.

    Note that buffer a does not interfere with using a for a bookmark. In
    other words if you've marked an area with 'm a', "a y'a will put the
    text from the current position to the bookmark in buffer a.

    Also note that "* p will insert the contents of the clipboard or copy the
    text to the clipboard. I use that if I have files open in two different
    gvim instances.

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  • From Hen Hanna@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sun Feb 26 10:49:59 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 10:28:41 AM UTC-8, rbowman wrote:
    On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:17:46 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna wrote:


    To move text-Lines between files --- i do this (below).... Maybe
    there's a better (or more standard) way, but i've been doing this for
    30+ years, so i'll prob. keep doing it.

    You can use the buffers.

    "a yy will add the current line to buffer a.

    "A 5 yy will add 5 lines to buffer a. Note the use of case.

    "a p will write the contents of buffer a to the other file.

    Note that buffer a does not interfere with using a for a bookmark. In
    other words if you've marked an area with 'm a', "a y'a will put the
    text from the current position to the bookmark in buffer a.

    Also note that "* p will insert the contents of the clipboard or copy the text to the clipboard. I use that if I have files open in two different
    gvim instances.


    thank you... that seems to work... i dont like to split the screen (into Panes) in Vim

    Select the text in visual mode, then press y to "yank" it into the buffer (copy)
    or d to "delete" it into the buffer (cut).

    Then you can :split <new file name> to split your vim window up,
    and press p to paste in the yanked text. Write the file as normal.

    To close the split again, pass the split you want to close :q .



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    USENET Nazi said:
    Yes your questions do seem excessively frequent even here on Usenet yes.

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  • From Hen Hanna@21:1/5 to Hen Hanna on Sun Feb 26 23:47:48 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 10:50:11 AM UTC-8, Hen Hanna wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 10:28:41 AM UTC-8, rbowman wrote:
    On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:17:46 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna wrote:


    To move text-Lines between files --- i do this (below).... Maybe
    there's a better (or more standard) way, but i've been doing this for 30+ years, so i'll prob. keep doing it.

    You can use the buffers.

    "a yy will add the current line to buffer a.

    "A 5 yy will add 5 lines to buffer a. Note the use of case.

    "a p will write the contents of buffer a to the other file.

    Note that buffer a does not interfere with using a for a bookmark. In other words if you've marked an area with 'm a', "a y'a will put the
    text from the current position to the bookmark in buffer a.

    Also note that "* p will insert the contents of the clipboard or copy the text to the clipboard. I use that if I have files open in two different gvim instances.


    thank you... that seems to work... i dont like to split the screen (into Panes) in Vim

    Select the text in visual mode, then press y to "yank" it into the buffer (copy)
    or d to "delete" it into the buffer (cut).

    Then you can :split <new file name> to split your vim window up,
    and press p to paste in the yanked text. Write the file as normal.

    To close the split again, pass the split you want to close :q .




    This works!!!

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4620672/copy-and-paste-content-from-one-file-to-another-file-in-vi

    I just found that if you add the following line into your vimrc file,
    then Vim is using the system clipboard.

    set clipboard=unnamed

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