On 2017-04-07, Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:20:18 +0100
> Mike Fleming  wrote:
>
>> That works fine up to a screenful. I can sympathise with Charlie if
>> he'd like to set a mark and do a few page downs, then yank from the
>> mark, then paste that somewhere else.
>
>  Easy enough to do, say you want the next 70 lines then:
>
> "a70yy
>:e t
> "aP
>:w
>:rew
>
> Then in the other window
>
>:r t
>:!rm t

Thanks for that.  I haven't gotten into the more advanced features
of vi, and I suspected there had to be something that would do the job.

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