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Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Trunghuynh Bk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:19:06 -0000

can't anyone show me the way to type the linux path in VI editor.
Do we have the functionality of TAB key in VI editor

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Guest — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:14:19 -0000

Copy until the end of a line:
y$
Copy to the beginning of a line:
y^
Copy following 4 words:
y4w

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Clint O Baxley — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:50:26 -0000

Windows in a vim discussion. LOL my sides hurt.

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

CyberSarge — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:33:45 -0000

Here is how the FTP sequence transpires:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>ftp 158.96.235.130
Connected to 158.96.235.130.
220-QTCP at DOMINONB.
220 Connection will close if idle more than 30 minutes.
User (158.96.235.130:(none)): xxxxxxx
331 Enter password.
Password:
230 xxxxxxx logged on.
ftp> bin
200 Representation type is binary IMAGE.
ftp> put "C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Desktop\mysqlinst.savf"
200 PORT subcommand request successful.
150 Sending file to member SAVF in file MYSQLINST in library QGPL.
> Netout :Software caused connection abort
426-Cannot write to member SAVF in file MYSQLINST in library QGPL.
426 Data transfer ended.
ftp: 2293725 bytes sent in 52.08Seconds 44.04Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

I have done this file transfer to many other machines but this one is giving me trouble.

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Atrimodi — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:14:20 -0000

copy and paste line :

command is : yyp

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

tg — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:12:08 -0000

@chrissy - nice! thanks

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

David — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:30:26 -0000

How do you copy part of a line and paste it into another line at the cursor position (not above or below the current line)?

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Sutourdot — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:40:37 -0000

hi ...
i eed information abou copying the text of pdf /msword file as following.

there atre 5 lines . i want to copy 1st and 5 th line at a time with out continuety.
please message me to sutourdot@yahoo.co.in

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Ocean Wy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:15:23 -0000

if I yanked something wrong and I need to cancel it, what should I do?

thanks

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Website Design Montreal — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:26:55 -0000

Thank you for all the comments. I found what I was look for at O'reilly 's onlamp website (Thanks to Fuzzy)

For those of you who are still looking for me this worked
:100,125w newfile

To see the results, I can open up newfile like so:

:e newfile

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Me — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:19:08 -0000

It's raining. I will eat a horse for my breakfast..

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

freddiebarronholmes — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:50:14 -0000

this is my first time using the vi editor.Can anyone show me how to create user account in solaris 10.

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Chrissy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:18:58 -0000

I realize your post is from 5 months ago from when I'm posting this, saravanan, but for anyone else who may read this:

You have several options that I know of--and I'm not even a vim master. Just for clarity's sake, fileA refers to the file you want to copy *from*, and fileB refers to the file you want to copy *to*.
1. You could open fileB, execute the command ":r fileA" (which would copy all of fileA into the open file), and then remove the portions you don't want.
2. You could open fileA, execute the command ":split fileB" (which would open fileB to the side of fileA), select the lines you wish to copy from fileA with the combination Shift+V and up/down arrow or j/k, press "y" to yank the lines, switch over to fileB with Ctrl+W Ctrl+W, and then paste the lines with "p".
3. Open fileA, select the lines you wish to copy, yank the lines with ""by" (note that's a double-quotation mark in front of the "b", and that the "b" could be any letter of the alphabet), open fileB, and finally paste the lines with ""bp" (where "b" is the same letter you used to yank).

Note that some of these methods may differ, depending on your version of vim. And by the by, the files don't have to be in the same folder for these options to work; you simply specify the path to the files (i.e., ":split /path/to/fileB").

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Ronni — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:01:35 -0000

Nice explanation

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Maria — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:21:56 -0000

Perfect :)

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

saravanan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:06:34 -0000

How to copy the portion of a file to another file in the same folder in unix?

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

ddreggors — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:36:56 -0000

Sorry one change...

CTRL-V is Visual Block Mode
simply use the lowercase "v" to enter visual mode and no need to do the "SHIFT-$" (should be SHIFT-4 or $) as mentioned above. So that process now beomes:

go to the line you wish to start yanking/cutting
v (enable visual mode)
<down arrow=""> (select the lines you wish to yank/cut)
or
<right left="" arrow=""> (select characters/words in a line)
d (cut lines) or y (yank/copy)

now just use 'p' or 'P' as needed to paste below or above cursor!

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

ddreggors — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:26:56 -0000

Another nice trick is to use Visual Mode...

go to the line you wish to start yanking/cutting
CTRL-V (enable visual mode)
SHIFT-$ (select to end of line)
<down arrow=""> (select the lines you wish to yank/cut)
d (cut lines) or y (yank/copy)

now just use 'p' or 'P' as needed to paste below or above cursor!

This is the same as fuzzy's except it allows you to "SEE" what you are yanking.

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

fuzzy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:27:12 -0000

Nope - just use m to mark the start, with an arbitrary buffer name (so you might type mx). Move your cursor down to where you want to stop copying, and type y'x (or d'x if you're cutting and pasting). Then move the cursor to the point where you want to paste, and type p. Magic.

You might find something like this helpful as a reference: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a...

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

Kesavan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:54:00 -0000

Good one.,

Re: Copy and paste text with vi or vim

john_doe — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:11:27 -0000

I need to yank x amount of lines from the middle of the file. Am I now suppose to count the amount of lines or what?