On 7 Apr 2017 21:42:31 GMT
Charlie Gibbs  wrote:

> 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.

 For anyone puzzled that's:

yank 70 lines into a buffer called a
open a file called t (which shouldn't exist)
paste the buffer
save the file
go back to the original

and

read the file called t
delete it


 Of course if you're working in multiple xterms (or similar) you can
just use X cut and paste - but remember to :set noai in the destination
otherwise auto-indent is likely to make things messy.

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