Non-equivalence of targets in vi
Ken Turkowski
ken at turtlevax.UUCP
Sun Jan 19 17:26:44 AEST 1986
All of the operators in vi can be used with nearly any target with count
modifiers:
Operators Targets
c d y w W e E b B ( ) { } % ^ $ 0 H M L h j k l
f<char> F<char> t<char> T<char> <col>| '<mark>
For example, "c2t," will change the text from the cursor position
until the character before the second comma.
I say "nearly", because I can't seem to figure out how to do it with the
section targets [[ and ]]. Suppose I want to delete the next two sections
so that I could put them in a different place. You'd think that
d2]]
would be the natural way to express this action, but vi just beeps me.
I've also tried
2d]] and d]2]
to no avail. Any suggestions?
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Ken Turkowski @ CIMLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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